Overview

This is a synthesis of case studies and theory which takes issue with established African demographic theory, emphasising that demography is an historical process, a permanent and varied adaptation to social and economic change. The book covers 20 African societies in the sub-Saharan region, examining not the effects of slavery, colonialism and capitalism on each, but also the resistance and resilience of indigenous African institutions and individuals.

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Author:   Dennis D. Cordell ,  Joel W. Gregory
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367014001

ISBN 10:   0367014009
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   29 November 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. African Historical Demography: The Search for a Theoretical Framework PART I. PRELUDE TO COLONIALISM: SEQUELS OF SLAVERY 2. Local Versus Regional Impact of Slave Exports on Africa 3. The Demography of Slavery in Western Soudan: The Late Nineteenth Century 4. Population and Capitalist Development in Precolonial West Africa: Kasar Kano in the Nineteenth Century PART II. WEST AFRICA: THE DEMOGRAPHIC EFFECTS OF FRENCH COLONIAL POLICIES 5. L'évolution démographique régionale du Sénégal et du bassin arachidier (Sine-Saloum) au vingtième siećle, 1904-1976, 6. ""Faire du nègre"": Military Aspects of Population Planning in French West Africa, 1920-1940 7. Creating Hunger: Labor and Agricultural Policies in Southern Mosi, 1919-1940 8. Making Migrants: Zarma Peasants in Niger, 1900-1920 PART III. CENTRAL AFRICA: FORCED MIGRATION AND THE DEMOGRAPHIC REGIME 9. Extracting People from Precapitalist Production: French Equatorial Africa from the 1890s to 1930s 10. Les origines des migrations modernes dan l'ouest du Zaire PART IV. EAST AND NORTHEAST AFRICA: CONQUEST AND THE READJUSTMENT OF FERTILITY AND MORTALITY 11. Differential High Fertility and Demographic Transitions: Peripheral Capitalism in Sudan 12. Population Growth and the Deterioration of Health: Mainland Tanzania, 1920-1960 13. Health, Nutrition, and Population in Central Kenya, 1890-1945 PART V. SOUTHERN AFRICA: INTENSE PRESSURES ON DEMOGRAPHIC VIABILITY 14. Dimensions of Conflict: Emigrant Labor from Colonial Malawi and Zambia, 1900-1945 15. Demography, Production, and Labor: Central Angola, 1890-1950 16. Capital, State, and the African Population of Johannesburg, 1921-1980 PART VI. CONCLUSION 17. Toward a Historical Sociology of Population in Zaïre: Proposals for the Analysis of the Demographic Regime

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