| Description |
1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Ideas in Context Ser |
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Ideas in Context Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Transformations in Demographic Thought -- Chapter 1 Mobility and Mutability in the Early Tudor Body Politic -- Multitude before "Population" -- Mobile Multitudes: Enclosure and Depopulation -- Ordering Multitudes: The Commonwealth and the Body Politic -- Chapter 2 Marginality, Incivility and Degeneration in Elizabethan England and Ireland -- Limits of the Body Politic -- Extraneous Multitudes: Vagrants and the Poor |
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Ambiguous Instruments: Mobility, Mixture and Civility in Ireland -- Chapter 3 Beyond the Body Politic: Territory, Population and Colonial Projecting -- From Depopulation to Overpopulation -- Policy and Situation in Reason of State -- Mobility, Mutability and Colonial Plantation -- The Bounds of Empire -- Chapter 4 Transmutation, Quantification and the Creation of Political Arithmetic -- An Invention of Population -- Population, Projecting and Colonial Plantation in the Hartlib Circle -- Survey, Transplantation and Settlement in Cromwellian Ireland |
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"Number, Weight, and Measure": Political Arithmetic in the Restoration -- The Meaning of Numbers -- Chapter 5 Improving Populations in the Eighteenth Century -- Demographic Subjectivity in the Age of Political Arithmetic -- Nature, Place and the Power of Improvement -- Improving Population as a Public Project -- Multiplication, Race and the Demographic Governance of Empire -- Demographic Subjectivity and Demographic Governance in the Revolutionary Era -- Conclusion: Malthus, Demographic Governance and the Limits of Politics -- The Malthusian Division -- Agency and the Limits of Transformation |
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Afterword -- Bibliography -- Archives and Libraries -- Online Archives, Digital Projects and Non-Print Media -- Printed Periodicals -- Printed Books and Scholarly Editions -- Doctoral Dissertations -- Published Secondary Works -- Index |
| Summary |
Shows how modern demographic thought began not with counting individuals but with manipulating marginalized and colonized groups |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Demography -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History
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British colonies
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Demography -- Political aspects
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Intellectual life
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Politics and government
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Population
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Population.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056650
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1485- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056884
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056850
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781009275576 |
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1009275577 |
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