Global population : history, geopolitics, and life on earth /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bashford, Alison, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Series:Columbia studies in international and global history
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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.