Debating Malthus

A Documentary Reader on Population, Resources, and the Environment
Herausgeber: Mayhew, Robert J; Sutter, Paul S

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780295749907
• ISBN-10: 0295749903
• Artikelnr.: 63303171

Autorenporträt

Robert J. Mayhew is Fellow and Senior Tutor at Pembroke College, Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Bristol. He has published extensively on the history of Malthusian thought, including Malthus: The Life and Legacies of an Untimely Prophet (2014) and New Perspectives on Malthus (editor, 2016). He has also edited Malthus's selected works for Penguin Classics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: The Many Moments of Malthusianism, by Paul S. Sutter
Acknowledgments
A Note Regarding Texts and Usage
Introduction: On an Overgrown Path-Linking Population and Environmental
History
Part 1: Before Malthus
From Anon., Certayne Causes Gathered Together, Wherin Is Shewed the Decaye
of England (1552)
From Giovanni Botero, The Cause of the Greatnesse of Cities (1635)
From Gabriel Plattes, A Discovery of Infinite Treasure (1639)
From John Graunt, Natural and Political Observations (1662)
From Charles de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws (1750)
From David Hume, "Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations" (1742)
From Robert Wallace, A Dissertation on the Numbers of Mankind, in Antient
and Modern Times (1753)
From Benjamin Franklin, "Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind"
(1755)
From Thomas Short, A Comparative History of the Increase and Decrease of
Mankind in England (1767)
From Richard Price, Observations on Reversionary Payments (1772)
Part 2: The Malthus Wars
From William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793)
From Marquis de Condorcet, Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress
of the Human Mind (1795)
From Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
From William Godwin, Of Population (1820)
From Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population (1826)
From Thomas Robert Malthus, A Summary View of the Principle of Population
(1830)
From Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1826)
Part 3: Evolving Debates
From Charles Darwin, "Extracts from an Unpublished Work on Species" (1839)
From Petr Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902)
From W. Stanley Jevons, The Coal Question (1865)
From Alfred Russel Wallace, "Free-Trade Principles and the Coal Question"
(1873)
From John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy (1848)
From John Ruskin, Unto This Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of
Political Economy (1862)
From Annie Besant, The Law of Population and Its Relation to Socialism
(1886)
From John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)
From Aldous Huxley, "What Is Happening to Our Population?" (1934)
From Josué de Castro, "The Cycle of the Crab" (1937)
Part 4: The Population Bomb
From William Vogt, The Road to Survival (1948)
From Radhakamal Mukerjee, "Population Theory and Politics" (1941)
From John Boyd Orr, The White Man's Dilemma (1953)
From Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb (1968)
From Garrett Hardin, "The Tragedy of the Commons" (1968)
From Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Malthus and
America: A Report about Food and People (1974)
From Barry Commoner, "A Bulletin Dialogue on The Closing Circle: Response"
(1972)
From Mahmood Mamdani, "The Ideology of Population Control" (1976)
From Amartya Sen, "Famines as Failures of Exchange Entitlements" (1976)
From Norman Borlaug, "The Green Revolution, Peace, and Humanity" (1970)
From Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons (1990)
From Julian Simon, "Resources, Population, Environment: An Oversupply of
False Bad News" (1980)
Part 5: The Malthus Wars Today
From Jessica Tuchman Mathews, "Redefining Security" (1989)
From Robert D. Kaplan, "The Coming Anarchy" (1994)
From Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
(2005)
From Jack A. Goldstone, "The New Population Bomb: The Four Megatrends That
Will Change the World" (2010)
From John Beddington, "Professor Sir John Beddington's Speech at SDUK 09"
(2009)
From Joel E. Cohen, "Population and Climate Change" (2010)
From Brian O'Neill et al., "Global Demographic Trends and Future Carbon
Emissions" (2010)
From Paul J. Crutzen, "Geology of Mankind" (2002)
From Johan Rockström et al., "Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe
Operating Space for Humanity" (2009)
From Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment, "Women,
Population, and the Environment: Call for a New Approach" (1993)
From Betsy Hartmann, "Population, Environment and Security: A New Trinity"
(1998)
From Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations (1999)
From Jade Sasser,"From Darkness into Light: Race, Population, and
Environmental Advocacy" (2014)
Index