Reproducing the British Caribbean

A sophisticated study that highlights both the power and the limits of British imperial policy to shape the lives of colonial subjects in the Caribbean.--American Historical Review

This highly original and well-researched text breaks new ground in investigating issues of population growth, maternal health practices, and infant mortality in the post-emancipation British Caribbean.--Journal of Interdisciplinary History

An authoritative, detailed, and closely argued narrative that represents a worthy addition to the emergent scholarship on the gender, race, and class dynamics of colonial public health policy and practice.-- Journal of British Studies

This stimulating, challenging book makes an important contribution to the social, environmental and medical history of the British Caribbean colonies, and indeed of the wider British Empire, in the century following emancipation.--Cercles

Of urgent importance to the fields of Caribbean history and sociology, as well as a wide range of subfields.--Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

An all-around excellent, clearly written, engaging, and important book that represents a powerful contribution to the now well-established field of Caribbean and Latin American medical history.--Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Reproducing the British Caribbean makes a useful contribution to an understanding of the social and historical factors that shaped the colonial policy of the early nineteenth century Caribbean.--Hispanic American Historical Review

A very valuable contribution to Caribbean historical scholarship.--Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth

Successfully elucidates the post-abolition global economic forces and labor anxieties that reverberated throughout the British Empire.--Journal of Women's History

Brilliantly argues, [that] this was neither the first, nor the last time that European and American health practitioners and population advocates, along with Carribean people, attempted to control reproducing bodies.--Social History of Medicine