Though Robert Malthus has never disappeared, he has been perpetually misunderstood. Robert Mayhew offers at once a major reassessment of Malthus's ideas and an intellectual history of the origins of modern debates about demography, resources, and the environment, giving historical depth to our current planetary concerns.
The old Purveyor, Matthew Campbell, protested that he was losing between £70 and £80 a term; as a contractor, he had to keep the same servants as when there were ninety students - a baker, a gardener, a cow-man and a dairy-woman.
25 Charles Hall , The Effects of Civilization on the People In European States ; with Observations on the Principal Conclusion in Mr. Malthus's Essay on Population ( New York : Augustus M. Kelley , 1965 ) . 26 On the effect of ...
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 ...
Based on the authoritative variorum edition of the versions of the Essay published between 1803 and 1826, including an introduction and bibliography, this new edition reveals how Malthusianism impinges on the history of political thought.
The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malthus.
This unique book offers not only a fascinating piece of comparative analysis in the history of economic thought but also places some of today’s most pressing debates into an accurate historical perspective, thereby improving our ...
On the occasion of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, New Perspectives on Malthus offers an up-to-date collection of interdisciplinary essays from leading Malthus experts who reassess his work.
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.
Of the parish of Dingwall} in the county of Ross, it is observed that, after the scarcity of 1783, the births were 16 below the average, and 14 below the lowest number of late years. The year 1787 was a year of plenty; and the following ...
... Population Bomb: Gender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016 ... Thinking: A Critical Reader of Primary Sources. London: Routledge, 2015. Robin, Libby, Sverker Sörlin, and Paul Warde ...