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Alison Bashford

New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus

Rereading the Principle of Population

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The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus 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. Elegantly written and forcefully argued, The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Ma… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Chaplin, Joyve E.
  • ISBN: 978-0-691-16419-9
  • EAN: 9780691164199
  • Produktnummer: 19085004
  • Verlag: Princeton Univers. Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 353 S.
  • Masse: H24.4 cm x B15.9 cm x D3.5 cm 658 g
  • Abbildungen: 12
  • Gewicht: 658

Über den Autor


Alison Bashford is the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Jesus College. Her books include Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth. Joyce E. Chaplin is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University. Her books include The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius.

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