Global population : : history, geopolitics, and life on earth / / Alison Bashford.
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Columbia University Press,, [2014] 2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia studies in international and global history
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (481 pages) :; illustrations, maps. |
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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.