EAN: 9783034330817

POPULATION THE STATE AND NATIONAL GRANDEUR - PA...

Only in France is demography essentially the population science: it is taught at school 
newspapers feature the evolution of fertility rates in their headlines and the subject sparks
ideological debates in the media. How did demography become a national identity issue? The
French exception is attributable to a political history that reached fulcrums during the Second
World War under the racist Vichy regime and then after the Liberation  with the development of
population policies and the creation of the French National Institute for Demographic Studies
(INED). The book is the first to retrace its controversial genesis and analyze its
ramifications for the following decades. It shows how theories  institutions and demographic
policies developed simultaneously in France. Its reflection on the links between ideologies 
science and the state offers a model that could be applied to the history of many other
scientific disciplines. Paul-André Rosental's indispensable study examines the emergence of
demography as an autonomous discipline and its association with the state in
mid-twentieth-century France. Demography's success in the immediate post-war years came in part
from its dual concern with both science and action  which allowed policy makers to claim both
knowledge and expertise in addressing social problems. Rosental's measured tone hides a
provocative argument that should serve as both a model and a foil for others working in the
history of the human sciences. Joshua Cole  University of Michigan.

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