Examines the emergence of population as an object of knowledge and governance through attempts to manage poverty, vagrancy, colonization, slavery, religious difference, and empire in the early modern British Atlantic world. This engaging study connects the history of demographic ideas to early modern intellectual, political, and colonial contexts.
Examines the emergence of population as an object of knowledge and governance through attempts to manage poverty, vagrancy, colonization, slavery, religious difference, and empire in the early modern British Atlantic world. This engaging study connects the history of demographic ideas to early modern intellectual, political, and colonial contexts.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Ted McCormick is Associate Professor of History at Concordia University in Montreal. His first book, William Petty and the Ambitions of Political Arithmetic (2009), won the 2010 John Ben Snow Prize, awarded by the North American Conference on British Studies for the best book on any aspect of British history before 1800. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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Introduction: Transformations in demographic thought 1. Mobility and mutability in the early Tudor body politic 2. Marginality, incivility and degeneration in Elizabethan England and Ireland 3. Beyond the body politic: territory, population and colonial projecting 4. Transmutation, quantification and the creation of political arithmetic 5. Improving populations in the eighteenth century Conclusion: Malthus, demographic governance and the limits of politics Afterword.
Introduction: Transformations in demographic thought 1. Mobility and mutability in the early Tudor body politic 2. Marginality, incivility and degeneration in Elizabethan England and Ireland 3. Beyond the body politic: territory, population and colonial projecting 4. Transmutation, quantification and the creation of political arithmetic 5. Improving populations in the eighteenth century Conclusion: Malthus, demographic governance and the limits of politics Afterword.
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