ISBN:
9780231147668
,
023114766X
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 466 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Columbia studies in international and global history
DDC:
304.6
Keywords:
Bevölkerungswachstum
;
Welt
;
Population Social aspects
;
Population Economic aspects
;
Population History
;
Population Social aspects
;
Population Economic aspects
;
Population History
;
Population
;
Population Economic aspects
;
Population Social aspects
;
History
;
Weltbevölkerung
;
Wachstum
;
Bodenfruchtbarkeit
;
Welternährung
;
Geburtenregelung
;
Eugenik
;
Geschichte 1920-1968
Abstract:
Introduction: Life and earth -- Confined in room : a spatial history of malthusianism -- War and peace : population, territory, and living space -- Density : universes with definite limits -- Migration : world population and the global color line -- Waste lands : sovereignty and the anticolonial history of world population -- Life on earth : ecology and the cosmo-politics of population -- Soil and food : agriculture and the fertility of the earth -- Sex : the geopolitics of birth control -- The species : human difference and global eugenics -- Food and freedom : a new world of plenty? -- Life and death : the biopolitical solution to a geopolitical problem -- Universal rights? Population control and the powers of reproductive freedom -- Conclusion: Population in the space age
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Life and earthConfined in room : a spatial history of malthusianism -- War and peace : population, territory, and living space -- Density : universes with definite limits -- Migration : world population and the global color line -- Waste lands : sovereignty and the anticolonial history of world population -- Life on earth : ecology and the cosmo-politics of population -- Soil and food : agriculture and the fertility of the earth -- Sex : the geopolitics of birth control -- The species : human difference and global eugenics -- Food and freedom : a new world of plenty? -- Life and death : the biopolitical solution to a geopolitical problem -- Universal rights? Population control and the powers of reproductive freedom -- Conclusion: Population in the space age.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Life and earth -- Confined in room : a spatial history of malthusianism -- War and peace : population, territory, and living space -- Density : universes with definite limits -- Migration : world population and the global color line -- Waste lands : sovereignty and the anticolonial history of world population -- Life on earth : ecology and the cosmo-politics of population -- Soil and food : agriculture and the fertility of the earth -- Sex : the geopolitics of birth control -- The species : human difference and global eugenics -- Food and freedom : a new world of plenty? -- Life and death : the biopolitical solution to a geopolitical problem -- Universal rights? Population control and the powers of reproductive freedom -- Conclusion: Population in the space age.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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