Global Population : : History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth / / Alison Bashford.
Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the "population bomb" in 1968. It arose in the aftermath of World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching ecological, agricultural, economic, and geopolitical consequences. The world population problem...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : 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 (480 p.) :; 15 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. The long nineteenth Century
- 1. Confined in Room
- Part II. The Politics of Earth, 1920s and 1930s
- 2. War and Peace
- 3. Density
- 4. Migration
- 5. Waste lands
- Part III. The Politics of life, 1920s and 1930s
- 6. Life on Earth
- 7. Soil and Food
- 8. Sex
- 9. The Species
- Part IV. Between One World and Three Worlds, 1940s to 1968
- 10. Food and Freedom
- 11. Life and Death
- 12. Universal Rights?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Archival Collections
- Index