Margaret Cook Andersen is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

"Regeneration through Empire is important in that it emphasizes the connections between pronatalist and imperial politics, thus bringing together two major concerns that commanded much political and cultural attention during the Third Republic."-Cheryl A. Koos, Contemporary French Civilization "Andersen convincingly demonstrates the integral ways in which pronatalism influenced France's colonial strategizing and, correspondingly, how the demographics of empire influenced pronatalist plans. Original, fascinating, and well written."—Carolyn Eichner, associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and author of Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. France’s “Supreme Chance”: Migration and Pronatalist Visions of Empire2. Recruiting Colonial Settlers: The Union Coloniale FranÇaise and the Non-ClassÉes3. Creating a “Labor Reservoir”: Pronatalism, Medicine, and Motherhood in Madagascar4. Voting for the Family: The Fight for Familial Suffrage in France and North Africa5. A Colonial Fountain of Youth: Family Rights, Pronatalism, and Settler Politics in North AfricaConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Margaret Cook Andersen is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

"Regeneration through Empire is important in that it emphasizes the connections between pronatalist and imperial politics, thus bringing together two major concerns that commanded much political and cultural attention during the Third Republic."-Cheryl A. Koos, Contemporary French Civilization "Andersen convincingly demonstrates the integral ways in which pronatalism influenced France's colonial strategizing and, correspondingly, how the demographics of empire influenced pronatalist plans. Original, fascinating, and well written."—Carolyn Eichner, associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and author of Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. France’s “Supreme Chance”: Migration and Pronatalist Visions of Empire2. Recruiting Colonial Settlers: The Union Coloniale FranÇaise and the Non-ClassÉes3. Creating a “Labor Reservoir”: Pronatalism, Medicine, and Motherhood in Madagascar4. Voting for the Family: The Fight for Familial Suffrage in France and North Africa5. A Colonial Fountain of Youth: Family Rights, Pronatalism, and Settler Politics in North AfricaConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Margaret Cook Andersen is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

"Regeneration through Empire is important in that it emphasizes the connections between pronatalist and imperial politics, thus bringing together two major concerns that commanded much political and cultural attention during the Third Republic."-Cheryl A. Koos, Contemporary French Civilization "Andersen convincingly demonstrates the integral ways in which pronatalism influenced France's colonial strategizing and, correspondingly, how the demographics of empire influenced pronatalist plans. Original, fascinating, and well written."—Carolyn Eichner, associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and author of Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. France’s “Supreme Chance”: Migration and Pronatalist Visions of Empire2. Recruiting Colonial Settlers: The Union Coloniale FranÇaise and the Non-ClassÉes3. Creating a “Labor Reservoir”: Pronatalism, Medicine, and Motherhood in Madagascar4. Voting for the Family: The Fight for Familial Suffrage in France and North Africa5. A Colonial Fountain of Youth: Family Rights, Pronatalism, and Settler Politics in North AfricaConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex