Problem of Great Importance by Karl Ittmann

Problem of Great Importance by Karl Ittmann

This volume examines the significant role population science played in British colonial policy in the twentieth century as the imperial state attempted to control colonial populations using new agricultural and public health policies, private family planning initiatives, and by imposing limits over migration and settlement. A Problem of Great Importance traces British imperial efforts to engage metropolitan activists who could improve its knowledge of colonial demography and design programs to influence colonial population trends. While imperial population control failed to achieve its goals, British institutions and experts would be central to the development of post-colonial population programs. Researchers, scholars, and historians of British history will gain greater perspective into the effects of demography on imperial governance and colonial and post-colonial British views of their place in the world.

Ittmann's study will be essential reading for anyone interested in the nature of imperial governance, the population control movement, or the lasting legacies of imperialism and decolonization into the twenty-first centuryAmerican Historical Review Viewing the empire through the lens of population allows Ittmann to see continuity across the great divide of decolonization, and provides insight into the colonial roots of many of our current ways of understanding global population and global issues. Journal of Modern History

Karl Ittmann is Associate Professor of History at the University of Houston.

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ISBN 13	9780520289543
ISBN 10	0520289544
Title	Problem of Great Importance
Author	Karl Ittmann
Series	Berkeley Series In British Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of California Press
Year published	2013-09-29
Number of pages	310
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