By exploring how children and their families became unprecedented objects of governmental policy in the early decades of France's Third Republic, Sylvia Schafer

The Science of Proof traces the rise of forensic medicine in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France and examines its implications for our understanding

Lorelle D. Semley explores the historical and political meanings of motherhood in West Africa and beyond, showing that the roles of women were far more complica

French government officials have long been known among Europeans for the special attention they give to the state of their population. In the first half of the

This text examines the ideas and practices underpinning state removal of children. Early twentieth century Spanish juvenile courts were involved in taking child