Fertility, Family, and Social Welfare between France and Empire

lt;b>Margaret Andersen is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in the USA. As well as having published the book, Regeneration through Empire: Pronatalists and Colonial Settlement in the Third Republic (2015), she has written articles for a number of journals, including French Historical Studies; French Politics, Culture, and Society; the Journal of Contemporary History; French History; and the Journal of Family History.

Melissa Byrnes is Associate Professor of History at Southwestern University, in the USA. Her research focuses on migration, race, empire, activism, and human rights. She has published her research in French Politics, Culture and Society and French Cultural Studies, as well as having presented at numerous conferences on issues connected to rights, welfare, and the French imperial system.

1. Introduction;. Margaret Cook Andersen and Melissa K. Byrnes.- 2. Colonial Reckoning: Population, Power, and Liberty in the French Atlantic, 1660-1787; Robert Scafe and Jennifer J. Davis.- 3. Pensioning Pondicherry's Enfants and Orphelins: Social Welfare and the French East India Company in Eighteenth-century French India; Jakob Burnham.- 4. "Free and Naturalized Frenchwomen": Gender and the Politics of Race on Revolution-Era Bourbon Island; Nathan Marvin.- 5. Lipiodol and Fertility Medicine in Interwar Colonial Algeria; Margaret Cook Andersen.- 6. Rituals of the Matrice: Maternal and Infant Protection in French Colonial Cambodia; Tara Tran.- 7. The Colonial Origins of Mass Prophylaxis as a Public Health Panacea; Aro Velmet.- 8. Categorizing the Maghrib: How Census Data, Demography, and Population Studies Facilitated Governance Strategies and Public Messaging in Colonial and Postcolonial North Africa; Jennifer Johnson.- 9. Modernizing Migrants: Welfare and the Transformation of Marseille's African Communities; Gregory Valdespino.- 10. Criminal Fertility: Policing North African Families after Decolonization; Melissa K Byrnes.- 11. Inessential Labour: Reproduction, work, and Algerian Family Migration after Independence; Elise Franklin.