Politics and Population Control: A Documentary History

Author Kathleen A. Tobin

Publisher Greenwood Publishing Group

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Kathleen A. Tobin

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Greenwood Publishing Group

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Copyright

2004

ISBN13

9780313059674

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9th Grade - College Senior

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Covers a wide spectrum of issues from the threat of a population explosion, to birth control, women's rights, and lawmakers' desires to address social ills. Includes primary documents that illustrate population issues from the mid-18th century to the present.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Introduction.
1: Resources.
An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, A View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; With an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils Which It Occasions.
Of Population. An Enquiry Concerning the Power of Increase in the Numbers of Mankind, Being an Answer to Mr. Malthus's Essay on That Subject.
A Letter to the Rev. T. R. Malthus, M.A. F.R.S. Being An Answer to the Criticism, On Mr. Godwin's Work On Population, Which Was Inserted In The LXXth Number of the Edinburgh Review: To Which Is Added An Examination of the Censuses of Great Britain and Ireland.
"Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy".
Contemporary Social Problems: A Course of Lectures Delivered at the University of Padua.
The Science of Society.
"Population Pressure in Japan".
The Population Bomb.
Our Overcrowded World: A Background Book on the Population Crisis.
"The Conundrum of Consumption".
"The Human Factor".
2: Economics.
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland, from being a Burden to Their Parents or Country; and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
On Political Economy in Connection With the Moral State & Moral Prospects of Society (1832).
Surplus Population: And Poor-Law Bill. A Comedy in Three Acts.
Wage Labor and Capital.
The Economics of Progress.
"Birth Control in Soviet Russia".
"Some Economic Consequences of a Declining Population".
The Affluent Society.
"Declaration of Population Strategy for Development".
3: Eugenics.
Population and Progress.
The Small Family System, Is It Injurious or Immoral?.
"Prevention of Racial Deterioration and Degeneracy".
"Is Race Suicid
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