Ted Mccormick

Human Empire (eBook, PDF)

Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500-1800

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Produktbeschreibung

Shows how modern demographic thought began not with counting individuals but with manipulating marginalized and colonized groups.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009275576
• Artikelnr.: 70909299

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.