The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus (eBook)

Rereading the Principle of Population

Alison Bashford, Joyce E. Chaplin (Autoren)

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2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8095-9 (ISBN)

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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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An ambitious global history that fundamentally alters our understanding of MalthusThe 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.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. They explore what the Atlantic and Pacific new worlds-from the Americas and the Caribbean to New Zealand and Tahiti-meant to Malthus, and how he treated them in his Essay. Bashford and Chaplin reveal how Malthus, long vilified as the scourge of the English poor, drew from his principle of population to conclude that the extermination of native populations by European settlers was unjust.Elegantly written and forcefully argued, The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus relocates Malthus's Essay from the British economic and social context that has dominated its reputation to the colonial and global history that inspired its genesis.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.4.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 12 halftones. 2 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Statistik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • Agriculture • Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • American Colonization Society • Americas • An Essay on the Principle of Population • Barbarian • Barbarism (linguistics) • British America • British Empire • British North America • Calculation • Charles Dickens • Civilisation (TV series) • Civilization • Colonialism • Colonization • colony • Commodity • Competition • Corn Laws • Criticism • debt • Demography • Economic Development • Economics • Edward Gibbon • Emigration • Europe • exploration • famine • His Family • Human overpopulation • Hunter-Gatherer • imperialism • Indigenous peoples • Indigenous peoples of the Americas • infanticide • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Joseph Priestley • laborer • Latin America • Malthusianism • Marquis de Condorcet • modern history • Modernity • Montesquieu • Moral Hazard • Mr. • napoleonic wars • Native Americans in the United States • natural resource • Natural Theology • Neubauer • New France • New South Wales • newspaper • Noble savage • North America • Pacific Ocean • Pamphlet • Philosopher • Political Economy • Politics • Politique • poor relief • Population decline • population dynamics • Population Growth • Prediction • Prejudice • Publication • Publishing • Racism • Scarcity • Second Hundred Years' War • Settler Colonialism • Slavery • Slavery Abolition Act 1833 • Smallpox • Society • Sovereignty • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • Tahiti • Tax • The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire • Thomas Jefferson • Thomas Robert Malthus • Tierra del Fuego • United States • Vegetable • warfare • Wealth • West Indian • William Cobbett • William Wilberforce • World Population • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8095-5 / 1400880955
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8095-9 / 9781400880959