Global population history geopolitics and life on earth

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Racial suicide rhetoric suggested a differential birthrate between nativeborn protestant and immigrant catholic women, or more generally between the fit or best, white, wealthy, educated protestants, and the unfit or undesirable poor, uneducated, criminals, diseased, mental and. Religion and the decline of fertility in the western world. Global populationtraces the idea of a world population problem as it evolved from the 1920s through the 1960s. History, geopolitics, and life on earth columbia university press, 2014. Concern about the size of the worlds population did not begin with the baby boomers. A global history of gold rushes by benjamin mountford. It is, rather, a detailed and insightful study of ideas within the anglophone world, ca.

This study traces the idea of a world population problem as it developed from the 1920s through the 1950s, long before the. Global population ultimately shows how a geopolitical problem about sovereignty over land morphed into a biopolitical solution, entailing sovereignty over ones person. Overpopulation as a conceptual problem originated after world war i and was understood as an issue with farreaching ecological, agricultural, economic, and geopolitical consequences. Global population history, geopolitics, and life on earth by alison bashford and publisher columbia university press. History, geopolitics, and life on earth by alison bashford 2014, hardcover at the best online prices at ebay. Global population history, geopolitics, and life on earth. History, geopolitics, and life on earth columbia studies in international and. Times higher education this book is an original intellectual history of eugenic thought. Concern about the size of the world s population did not begin with the baby boomers.

Buy a discounted paperback of global population online from australias leading online bookstore. Alison bashfords argument is that eugenics, contaminated by contact with interwar and wartime racism and fascism, did not vanish after the second world war, but remained an active element in thinking about the nexus linking population, geopolitics, and hunger at least until the late 1960s. The political economy of global population change, 19502050. Global population traces the idea of a world population problem as it evolved from the 1920s through the 1960s. History, geopolitics, and life on earth columbia studies in international and global history by bashford alison 20140128 hardcover are generally reliable for you who want to be a successful person, why. In traditions and trends in global environmental politics.

Published 05 december 20 this book reconstructs the twentiethcentury population problem in terms of migration, colonial expansion, globalization and world food plans. Race suicide was an alarmist term used in eugenics, coined in 1900 by the sociologist edward a. Here is the best history we have of the emergence of demographic transition theoryalison bashfords global population. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Overpopulation as a conceptual problem originated after world war i and was understood as an issue with. Save up to 80% by choosing the etextbook option for isbn. Rereading the principle of population princeton university press, 2016. Columbia studies in international and global history.

History, geopolitics, and life on earth av alison bashford isbn 9780231147668 hos adlibris. Global population 9780231147675, 9780231519526 vitalsource. History, geopolitics and life on earth is one of the most wideranging works of intellectual history ive read in a long time. Everything was affectedlabor, capital, demography, environment, politicsas this collaboration of leading historians reveal.

A detailed and nuanced history of population debates. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading global population. Drawing on international conference transcripts and personal and organizational archives, this book reconstructs the twentiethcentury population problem in terms of migration, colonial expansion, globalization, and world food plans. Times higher education this book is an original intellectual history of eugenic thought this work commands respect for its sweep and its range, identifying authoritarian elements in.

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We honor the long history of arts and humanities disciplines in discussions of environmental risks, losses, and opportunities. The growth and distribution of the human population over the planets surface came deeply to. Times higher education this book is an original intellectual history of eugenic thought this work commands respect for its sweep and its range, identifying authoritarian elements. International relations and the earth, edited by olaf corry and hayley stevenson. The world population problem concerned the fertility of soil as much as the fertility of women, always involving both earth and life. Global population by alison bashford overdrive rakuten. In this insightful study, alison bashford analyzes and historicizes the concept. Concern about the size of the world s population did not begin with the population bomb in 1968. Columbia studies in international and global history includes bibliographical references and index. History, geopolitics, and life on earth columbia studies in international and global history kindle edition by bashford, alison.