Margaret Cook Andersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3978148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Cook Andersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret Cook |
| FAMILY NAME | Andersen |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSEN M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies, by Sue Peabody
This microhistory explores the nature of freedom and slavery in France’s Indian Ocean colonies. Drawing on archival collections in France, Réunion, Mauritius and the United Kingdom, Sue Peabody painstakingly reconstructs the lives of Madeleine and her children Maurice, Constance and Furcy. The story begins in India when a young Madeleine became the slave of a woman named Despense who later brought her to France. Significantly, she was not registe…
Thuy Linh Nguyen. Childbirth, Maternity, and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880–1945
Childbirth practices represent an important lens through which the historian can interpret the changing cultural and political landscape of a historical context. With this study focusing on French efforts to establish Western obstetrical care in colonial Vietnam between 1880 and 1945, Thuy Linh Nguyen paints a picture of a colonial state struggling to extend its influence and engaged in a continuous process of negotiation with the colonized popul…
French Settlers, Familial Suffrage, and Citizenship in 1920s Tunisia
After the First World War, many politicians sought, and ultimately failed, to replace universal suffrage with familial suffrage in French elections. This article analyzes how this new effort to think of French citizens in terms of gender and familial identities extended to the empire with the 1922 introduction of familial suffrage in Tunisia. This reform redefined the relationship between French settlers and their government. It also shows that T…
Creating French Settlements Overseas: Pronatalism and Colonial Medicine in Madagascar
This article explores the reasons that pronatalists in the Third Republic aligned the resolution of the depopulation crisis with the fate of settler colonialism. Convinced that the French population grew more quickly when far away from the metropole, pronatalists presented colonial emigration and settlement as means by which to strengthen the French race. The demographic importance that pronatalists attached to imperialism also led them to study …
Creating French Settlements Overseas: Pronatalism and Colonial Medicine in Madagascar
This article explores the reasons that pronatalists in the Third Republic aligned the resolution of the depopulation crisis with the fate of settler colonialism. Convinced that the French population grew more quickly when far away from the metropole, pronatalists presented colonial emigration and settlement as means by which to strengthen the French race. The demographic importance that pronatalists attached to imperialism also led them to study …
French Settlers, Familial Suffrage, and Citizenship in 1920s Tunisia
After the First World War, many politicians sought, and ultimately failed, to replace universal suffrage with familial suffrage in French elections. This article analyzes how this new effort to think of French citizens in terms of gender and familial identities extended to the empire with the 1922 introduction of familial suffrage in Tunisia. This reform redefined the relationship between French settlers and their government. It also shows that T…
Creating French Settlements Overseas: Pronatalism and Colonial Medicine in Madagascar
This article explores the reasons that pronatalists in the Third Republic aligned the resolution of the depopulation crisis with the fate of settler colonialism. Convinced that the French population grew more quickly when far away from the metropole, pronatalists presented colonial emigration and settlement as means by which to strengthen the French race. The demographic importance that pronatalists attached to imperialism also led them to study …
French Settlers, Familial Suffrage, and Citizenship in 1920s Tunisia
After the First World War, many politicians sought, and ultimately failed, to replace universal suffrage with familial suffrage in French elections. This article analyzes how this new effort to think of French citizens in terms of gender and familial identities extended to the empire with the 1922 introduction of familial suffrage in Tunisia. This reform redefined the relationship between French settlers and their government. It also shows that T…
Thuy Linh Nguyen. Childbirth, Maternity, and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880–1945
Childbirth practices represent an important lens through which the historian can interpret the changing cultural and political landscape of a historical context. With this study focusing on French efforts to establish Western obstetrical care in colonial Vietnam between 1880 and 1945, Thuy Linh Nguyen paints a picture of a colonial state struggling to extend its influence and engaged in a continuous process of negotiation with the colonized popul…
Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies, by Sue Peabody
This microhistory explores the nature of freedom and slavery in France’s Indian Ocean colonies. Drawing on archival collections in France, Réunion, Mauritius and the United Kingdom, Sue Peabody painstakingly reconstructs the lives of Madeleine and her children Maurice, Constance and Furcy. The story begins in India when a young Madeleine became the slave of a woman named Despense who later brought her to France. Significantly, she was not registe…
Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Demography (2 works)