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The Resource Global population : history, geopolitics, and life on earth, Alison Bashford

Global population : history, geopolitics, and life on earth, Alison Bashford

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Summary
"Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the Baby Boomers. Overpopulation as a conceptual problem originated after World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching ecological, agricultural, economic, and geopolitical consequences. This study traces the idea of a world population problem as it developed from the 1920s through the 1950s, long before the late-1960s notion of a postwar "population bomb." Drawing on international conference transcripts, the volume reconstructs the twentieth-century discourse on population as an international issue concerned with migration, colonial expansion, sovereignty, and globalization. It connects the genealogy of population discourse to the rise of economically and demographically defined global regions, the characterization of "civilizations" with different standards of living, global attitudes toward "development," and first- and third-world designations."--Provided by publisher
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xii, 466 pages)
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
Isbn
9781785392726
Instance
Label
Global population : history, geopolitics, and life on earth
Title
Global population
Title remainder
history, geopolitics, and life on earth
Statement of responsibility
Alison Bashford
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Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the Baby Boomers. Overpopulation as a conceptual problem originated after World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching ecological, agricultural, economic, and geopolitical consequences. This study traces the idea of a world population problem as it developed from the 1920s through the 1950s, long before the late-1960s notion of a postwar "population bomb." Drawing on international conference transcripts, the volume reconstructs the twentieth-century discourse on population as an international issue concerned with migration, colonial expansion, sovereignty, and globalization. It connects the genealogy of population discourse to the rise of economically and demographically defined global regions, the characterization of "civilizations" with different standards of living, global attitudes toward "development," and first- and third-world designations."--Provided by publisher
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1963-
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Bashford, Alison
Dewey number
304.6
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
Language note
In English
LC call number
HB849.44
LC item number
.B37 2013
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Columbia studies in international and global history
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  • Population
  • Population
  • Population
  • Population Dynamics
  • Population
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Demography
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • HISTORY
  • HISTORY
  • Population
  • Population
  • Population
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Global population : history, geopolitics, and life on earth, Alison Bashford
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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online resource
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rdacarrier
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multicolored
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text
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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
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870835614
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xii, 466 pages)
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online
Isbn
9781785392726
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unknown
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computer
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rdamedia
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10.7312/bash14766
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illustrations, maps
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remote
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(OCoLC)870835614
Label
Global population : history, geopolitics, and life on earth, Alison Bashford
Publication
Copyright
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
870835614
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xii, 466 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781785392726
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other control number
10.7312/bash14766
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
  • 22573/ctt5cq02g
  • e1f80455-410a-46a4-8b5f-caa7b57a19bc
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
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unknown
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Specific material designation
remote
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(OCoLC)870835614

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