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Hardcover Peopling the World: Representing Human Mobility from Milton to Malthus Book

ISBN: 0812252020

ISBN13: 9780812252026

Peopling the World: Representing Human Mobility from Milton to Malthus

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A compelling study of views about population and demographic mobility in the British long eighteenth century

In John Milton's Paradise Lost of 1667, Adam and Eve are promised they will produce a "race to fill the world," a thought that consoles them even after the trauma of the fall. By 1798, the idea that the world would one day be entirely filled by people had become, in Thomas Malthus's hands, a nightmarish vision. In Peopling...

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