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The new worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus : rereading the Principle of population
- Title
- The new worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus : rereading the Principle of population / Alison Bashford and Joyce E. Chaplin.
- Author
- Bashford, Alison, 1963-
- Publication
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Chaplin, Joyce E.
- Description
- 353 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Summary
- This book is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood. First published anonymously in 1798, the Essay systematically argues that population growth tends to outpace its means of subsistence unless kept in check by factors such as disease, famine, or war, or else by lowering the birth rate through such means as sexual abstinence. Challenging the widely held notion that Malthus's Essay was a product of the British and European context in which it was written, Alison Bashford and Joyce Chaplin demonstrate that it was the new world, as well as the old, that fundamentally shaped Malthus's ideas.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-344) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-1649
- ISBN
- 9780691164199
- 0691164193
- LCCN
- 2016931919
- OCLC
- 945797614
- Author
- Bashford, Alison, 1963- author.
- Title
- The new worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus : rereading the Principle of population / Alison Bashford and Joyce E. Chaplin.
- Publisher
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-344) and index.
- Added Author
- Chaplin, Joyce E., author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-1649