{"product_id":"regeneration-through-empire-9780803244979","title":"Regeneration through Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 187071, French patriots feared that their country was in danger of becoming a second-rate power in Europe. Decreasing birth rates had largely slowed French population growth, and the country's population was not keeping pace with that of its European neighbors. To regain its standing in the European world, France set its sights on building a vast colonial empire while simultaneously developing a policy of pronatalism to reverse these demographic trends. Though representing distinct political movements, colonial supporters and pronatalist organizations were born of the same crisis and reflected similar anxieties concerning France's trajectory and position in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRegeneration through Empire\u003c\/i\u003e explores the intersection between colonial lobbyists and pronatalists in France's Third Republic. Margaret Cook Andersen argues that as the pronatalist movement became more organized at the end of the nineteenth century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRegeneration through Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is important in that it emphasizes the connections between pronatalist and imperial politics, thus bringing together two major concerns that commanded much political and cultural attention during the Third Republic.\"—Cheryl A. Koos, \u003ci\u003eContemporary French Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Andersen convincingly demonstrates the integral ways in which pronatalism influenced France’s colonial strategizing and, correspondingly, how the demographics of empire influenced pronatalist plans. Original, fascinating, and well written.”—Carolyn Eichner, associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and author of \u003ci\u003eSurmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. France’s “Supreme Chance”: Migration and Pronatalist Visions of Empire\u003cbr\u003e2. Recruiting Colonial Settlers: The Union Coloniale Française and the \u003ci\u003eNon-Classées\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Creating a “Labor Reservoir”: Pronatalism, Medicine, and Motherhood in Madagascar\u003cbr\u003e4. Voting for the Family: The Fight for Familial Suffrage in France and North Africa\u003cbr\u003e5. A Colonial Fountain of Youth: Family Rights, Pronatalism, and Settler Politics in North Africa\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405256958295,"sku":"9780803244979","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803244979.jpg?v=1730489305","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/regeneration-through-empire-9780803244979","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}