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Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–1800: Ideas in Context

Autor Ted McCormick
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 apr 2022
Arguing that demographic thought begins not with quantification but in attempts to control the qualities of people, Human Empire traces two transformations spanning the early modern period. First was the emergence of population as an object of governance through a series of engagements in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, Ireland, and colonial North America, influenced by humanist policy, reason of state, and natural philosophy, and culminating in the creation of political arithmetic. Second was the debate during the long eighteenth century over the locus and limits of demographic agency, as church, civil society, and private projects sought to mobilize and manipulate different marginalized and racialized groups – and as American colonists offered their own visions of imperial demography. This innovative, engaging study examines the emergence of population as an object of knowledge and governance and connects the history of demographic ideas with their early modern intellectual, political, and colonial contexts.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781009123266
ISBN-10: 1009123262
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Ideas in Context

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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