Human Empire

Human Empire PDF Author: Ted McCormick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009275585
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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Book Description
Examines the emergence of population as an object of knowledge and governance through attempts to manage poverty, vagrancy, colonization, slavery, religious difference, and empire in the early modern British Atlantic world. This engaging study connects the history of demographic ideas to early modern intellectual, political, and colonial contexts.