Global population : history, geopolitics, and life on earth /
"Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the Baby Boomers. Overpopulation as a conceptual problem originated after World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching ecological, agricultural, economic, and geopolitical consequences. This study traces t...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Columbia studies in international and global history.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
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.
