ABSTRACT

Maria Sophia Quine demystifies the population policies of fascist regimes by looking at them in the wider context of how societies in general reacted to the profound economic changes brought by industrialization. Population Politics in Twentieth Century Europe:
* provides an original, comparative treatment of European population policies
* gives the historical background to twentieth-century population policies
* considers topics such as racism and sexism in Nazi ideology, Eugenics in England, family allowance schemes in France, and sterilization
* synthesizes the latest research in different fields and countries.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

Fears of ‘over-population’ and ‘depopulation’ in the nineteenth century

chapter |35 pages

From Malthus to Mussolini

Fascist Italy's ‘battle for births'

chapter |37 pages

Fathers of the nation

French pronatalism during the Third Republic

chapter |40 pages

Nazi population policy

Pronatalism and antinatalism during the Third Reich

chapter |11 pages

Conclusion

The politics of race and population in the twentieth century