Overview: Presents a range of topics in a variety of colonial contexts, with examples from Algeria, Senegal, Indochina, and France.Combines research on the history of welfare, demography, and medicine.Covers a This edited volume focuses on social welfare and medicine within the French Empire and brings together important currents in both imperial history and the history of medicine. The book covers a broad period from the ‘first colonial empires’ that existed prior to 1830, the ‘new imperialism’ of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the process of decolonisation in the mid-twen
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