Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic world, 1500-1800

Introduction: Transformations in demographic thought -- Mobility and mutability in the early Tudor body politic -- Marginality, incivility and degeneration in Elizabethan England and Ireland -- Beyond the body politic : territory, population and colonial projecting -- Transmutation, quantification a...

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1. Verfasser: McCormick, Ted (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, United Kigdom Cambridge University Press 2022
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: Transformations in demographic thought -- Mobility and mutability in the early Tudor body politic -- Marginality, incivility and degeneration in Elizabethan England and Ireland -- Beyond the body politic : territory, population and colonial projecting -- Transmutation, quantification and the creation of political arithmetic -- Improving populations in the eighteenth century -- Conclusion: Malthus, demographic governance and the limits of politics.
"This book traces two transformations in early modern English thinking about the governance of populations. The first, spanning the Tudor and early Stuart eras, was a shift in emphasis in defining the real object of demographic knowledge and intervention. While sixteenth-century engagements with what we would consider demographic entities and processes tended to identify particular, qualitatively defined groups (referred to here as "multitudes" to distinguish them from "population" as a quantity) as their units of analysis, by the middle decades of the seventeenth century something much closer to the national population, as a total and knowable number of people, had come to the fore"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:x, 300 Seiten
ISBN:9781009123266

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