Human Empire

by Ted McCormick

Arguing that demographic thought begins not with quantification but in attempts to control the qualities of people, Human Empire traces two transformations spanning the early modern period. First was the emergence of population as an object of governance through a series of engagements in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, Ireland, and colonial North America, influenced by humanist policy, reason of state, and natural philosophy, and culminating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009124617
• ISBN13: 9781009124614
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"