Malthus: 'An Essay on the Principle of Population'
This book provides a student audience with the best scholarly edition of Malthus' Essay on Population. Written in 1798 as a polite attack on post-French revolutionary speculations on the theme of social and human perfectibility, it remains one of the most powerful statements of the limits to human hopes set by the tension between population growth and natural resources. Based on the authoritative variorum edition of the versions of the Essay published between 1803 and 1826, and complete with full introduction and bibliographic apparatus, this new edition is intended to show how Malthusianism impinges on the history of political thought.
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Malthus: 'An Essay on the Principle of Population'
This book provides a student audience with the best scholarly edition of Malthus' Essay on Population. Written in 1798 as a polite attack on post-French revolutionary speculations on the theme of social and human perfectibility, it remains one of the most powerful statements of the limits to human hopes set by the tension between population growth and natural resources. Based on the authoritative variorum edition of the versions of the Essay published between 1803 and 1826, and complete with full introduction and bibliographic apparatus, this new edition is intended to show how Malthusianism impinges on the history of political thought.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521419543 |
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| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication date: | 08/28/1992 |
| Series: | Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought |
| Edition description: | Revised ed. |
| Pages: | 430 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.14(d) |
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