While millions face hunger, malnutrition, and starvation, the world s population is increasing by over 225,000 people per day, 80 million per year."
In this new edition of the Essay, Geoffrey Gilbert considers why it was so effective, and ties it to issues of social policy, theology, evolution, and the environment.
Malthus's simple yet powerful argument was highly controversial in its day.
This is a replica of the 1826 sixth edition.
This new edition of the Essay also includes other writings and diary extracts that show Malthus's intellectual development after his landmark treatise." -- Back of cover.
Essay On The Principle Of Population
This Norton Critical Edition includes: · An introduction and explanatory annotations by Joyce E. Chaplin. · Malthus’s Essay in its first published version (1798) along with selections from the expanded version (1803), which he ...
The central topic of the essay was the idea, extremely prevalent in the 18th and 19th centuries, that human society was in some way perfectible.
This book provides a student audience with the best scholarly edition of Malthus' Essay on Population.
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.; E. P. Dutton & Co. in London and New York.
Amory and Hall, Colonial Book; Howsam and Raven,“Introduction”; McCoy, elusive Republic, 191–92; Gibson, Americans versus Malthus); Smith, “Reception of Malthus' Essay,” 551. The reception history of the essay within Malthus's lifetime ...