Debating Malthus: A Documentary Reader on Population, Resources, and the Environment

Robert J. Mayhew (Ed.)

ISBN 10: 0295749903 / ISBN 13: 9780295749907

Editore: University of Washington Press, 2022

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• Titolo: Debating Malthus: A Documentary Reader on Population, Resources, and the Environment
• Editore: University of Washington Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0295749903
• ISBN 13: 9780295749907
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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For centuries, thinking about the earth's increasing human population has been tied to environmental ideas and political action. This highly teachable collection of contextualized primary sources allows students to follow European and North American discussions about intertwined and evolving concepts of population, resources, and the natural environment from early contexts in the sixteenth century through to the present day.

Edited and introduced by Robert J. Mayhew, a noted biographer of Thomas Robert Malthus—whose Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), excerpted here, is an influential and controversial take on the topic—this volume explores themes including evolution, eugenics, war, social justice, birth control, environmental Armageddon, and climate change. Other responses to the idea of new "population bombs" are represented here by radical feminist work, by Indigenous views of the population-environment nexus, and by intersectional race-gender approaches. By learning the patterns of this discourse, students will be better able to critically evaluate historical conversations and contemporary debates.

Informazioni sull?autore

Robert J. Mayhew is Fellow and Senior Tutor at Pembroke College, Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Bristol. He has published extensively on the history of Malthusian thought, including Malthus: The Life and Legacies of an Untimely Prophet (2014) and New Perspectives on Malthus (editor, 2016). He has also edited Malthus's selected works for Penguin Classics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.