Demography and Nation : Social Legislation and Population Policy in Bulgaria, 1918-1944

Front cover -- Series title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Transliteration table of Bulgarian Cyrillic -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Outlining the problem -- The objectives of the research -- Population and population anxieties from a historical perspective -- 2. Methodology -- Approaches: The "regenerated" narrative -- Agents of research and limitations of the research methodology -- Instruments of research -- General limitations of the study -- Sources -- Parliamentary minutes and parliamentary appendices -- Archival units -- Mass media: Newspapers and magazines -- Independent publications -- 3. A historical outline of the period under investigation -- The path to Neuilly (1919) -- Ideological definitions of the era -- 4. Social and demographic structure of interwar Bulgaria -- 5. A history of Bulgarian legislation-an outline -- PART I REGENERATING A DEFEATED NATION -- Chapter 1 Building up a Maternal and Child Healthcare Service -- 1. An "orange" start: The BANU's Bill for People's Health (1923) -- An "orange" ideology of healthcare -- Non-codified provisions for maternal and child healthcare -- 2. The Democratic Alliance and the 1929 Law for People's Health -- Legislative introduction of preventive medicine in Bulgaria -- The 1929 Law for People's Health and its historical legacy -- "the way they saw it": The problem of "wishful" social hygiene -- Contradictions between theory and practice -- 3. Fertility decrease and the rediscovery of state welfare -- The failure of the propaganda approach -- The legal reversal -- Chapter 2 Public Assistance -- 1. State protection of the family: The privileged child -- The 1934 Decree-Law for Public Assistance and its legislative aftermath -- 2. Legislation on family allowances in Bulgaria -- Introducing family allowances in Bulgaria-a historical outline.