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Download or read book A Comparative History of the Increase and Decrease of Mankind in England, and Several Countries Abroad written by and published by . This book was released on 1767 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Short
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Total Pages : 213 pages
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Download or read book A Comparative History of the Increase and Decrease of Mankind in England and Several Countries Abroad written by Thomas Short and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Short
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Total Pages : 236 pages
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Download or read book A Comparative History of the Increase and Decrease of Mankind in England written by Thomas Short and published by . This book was released on 1767 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Comparative History of the Increase and Decrease of Mankind in England, and Several Countries Abroad written by Thomas Short and published by . This book was released on 1767 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Short
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Total Pages : 213 pages
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Download or read book A comparative history of the increase and decrease of mankind in England, and several countries abroad written by Thomas Short and published by . This book was released on 1767 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charlotte Sussman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812252020
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Peopling the World written by Charlotte Sussman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the World, Charlotte Sussman asks how and why this shift took place. How did Britain's understanding of the value of reproduction, the vacancy of the planet, and the necessity of moving people around to fill its empty spaces change? Sussman addresses these questions through readings of texts by Malthus, Milton, Swift, Defoe, Goldsmith, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, and others, and by placing these authors in the context of debates about scientific innovation, emigration, cultural memory, and colonial settlement. Sussman argues that a shift in thinking about population and mobility occurred in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. Before that point, both political and literary texts were preoccupied with "useless" populations that could be made useful by being dispersed over Britain's domestic and colonial territories; after 1760, a concern with the depopulation caused by emigration began to take hold. She explains this change in terms of the interrelated developments of a labor theory of value, a new idea of national identity after the collapse of Britain's American empire, and a move from thinking of reproduction as a national resource to thinking of it as an individual choice. She places Malthus at the end of this history because he so decisively moved thinking about population away from a worldview in which there was always more space to be filled and toward the temporal inevitability of the whole world filling up with people.
Author : Judith Blow Williams
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book A Guide to Some Aspects of English Social History, 1750-1859 written by Judith Blow Williams and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William M. Cavert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107073006
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Smoke of London written by William M. Cavert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William M. Cavert investigates the origins of urban air pollution, explaining how this problem arose during the early modern period.
Author : Ted McCormick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009123262
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Human Empire written by Ted McCormick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how modern demographic thought began not with counting individuals but with manipulating marginalized and colonized groups.
Author : Jay Barrett Botsford
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Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book English Society in the Eighteenth Century as Influenced from Oversea written by Jay Barrett Botsford and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. L. Jones
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000869962
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Agriculture and Economic Growth in England 1650-1815 written by E. L. Jones and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1967, this was the first book to discuss why agricultural supply became more ‘responsive’ and to provide broadly based evidence of the ways in which that ‘responsiveness’ may have influenced the growth of the economy. The editor chose 7 essays, reprinted in full, to illustrate altered perspectives of agricultural change. His substantial introduction places the beginnings of a significant rise in farm output as far back as the mid-seventeenth century and concludes that agriculture played a vital but complicated role in the economy of eighteenth-century England.
Author : Jan Golinski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226302067
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment written by Jan Golinski and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enlightenment inquiries into the weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions. British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment reveals how a new sense of the national climate emerged in the eighteenth century from the systematic recording of the weather, and how it was deployed in discussions of the health and welfare of the population. Enlightened intellectuals hailed climate’s role in the development of civilization but acknowledged that human existence depended on natural forces that would never submit to rational control. Reading the Enlightenment through the ideas, beliefs, and practices concerning the weather, Jan Golinski aims to reshape our understanding of the movement and its legacy for modern environmental thinking. With its combination of cultural history and the history of science, British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment counters the claim that Enlightenment progress set humans against nature, instead revealing that intellectuals of the age drew characteristically modern conclusions about the inextricability of nature and culture.
Author : Paula R. Backscheider
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405192453
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture written by Paula R. Backscheider and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts. An up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novel Furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral context Foregrounds those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century Explores formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period, and its lasting legacy Covers both traditional themes, such as narrative authority and print culture, and cutting-edge topics, such as globalization, nationhood, technology, and science Considers both canonical and non-canonical literature
Author : Mary Allerton Kilbourne Matossian
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300051216
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Poisons of the Past written by Mary Allerton Kilbourne Matossian and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did food poisoning cause the Black Plague, the Salem witch-hunts, and other significant events in human history? In this pathbreaking book, historian Mary Kilbourne Matossian argues that epidemics, sporadic outbursts of bizarre behavior, and low fertility and high death rates from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries may have been caused by food poisoning from microfungi in bread, the staple food in Europe and America during this period. "A bold book with a stimulating thesis. Matossian's claims for the role of food poisoning will need to be incorporated into any satisfactory account of past demographic trends."--John Walter, Nature "Matossian's work is innovative and original, modest and reasoned, and opens a door on our general human past that historians have not only ignored, but often did not even know existed."--William Richardson, Environmental History Review "This work demonstrates an impressive variety of cross-national sources. Its broad sweep also reveals the importance of the history of agriculture and food and strengthens the view that the shift from the consumption of mold-poisoned rye bread to the potato significantly contributed to an improvement in the mental and physical health of Europeans and Americans."--Naomi Rogers, Journal of American History "This work is a true botanical-historical tour de force."--Rudolf Schmid, Journal of the International Association of Plant Taxonomy "Intriguing and lucid."--William K. Beatty, Journal of the American Medical Association
Author : Neil Hanson
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470450703
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Great Fire of London written by Neil Hanson and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaim for The Great Fire of London "Popular narrative history at its best, well researched, imaginatively and dramatically written. . . . The author marshals his story and his mass of contemporary quotations with great skill." —Times Literary Supplement "The brilliance of its narrative chapters . . . a marvelous eye for evocative detail. Hanson’s prose is animated by the ferocious energy of the fire and seems to be guided by its inexorable movement. He creates the literary equivalent of the special effects in a disaster movie. . . . A rich mixture of imagination and research." —The Daily Telegraph (London) "He writes with knowledge and verve. As if making a television documentary on a natural disaster, he includes a gripping technical chapter on the mechanism and chemistry of combustion. This works brilliantly. . . . The book gains immeasurably from the author's eye for detail and from his understanding of the beliefs and prejudices of the day. . . . Informative and lively account." —The Sunday Times (London) "The best depiction of the Great Fire seen to date. . . . He manages to describe not only the atmosphere of the event itself, but also the experience of living in seventeenth-century Britain." —Soho Independent "A riveting book for those who like their history with a bit of mystery." —The Brisbane News "A rollicking good yarn." —The Age (Melbourne) "Blends high-class original research with a narrative style that mimics fiction. . . . Horrific subjects have served this man well and he has a knack for plugging into the dark themes that run like molten rivers beneath our social veneer." —New Zealand Herald "Neil Hanson’s descriptions of the inferno are like CNN reports from Kosovo." —Camden New Journal "It's not the technical data which makes the book so riveting though. It's the flair with which Hanson invests his account with qualities usually reserved for novels–narrative drive, persuasive character sketches, vivid scene stealing." —Sunday Star Times (New Zealand)
Author : Suman Seth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108304850
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Difference and Disease written by Suman Seth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the nineteenth century, travellers who left Britain for the Americas, West Africa, India and elsewhere encountered a medical conundrum: why did they fall ill when they arrived, and why - if they recovered - did they never become so ill again? The widely accepted answer was that the newcomers needed to become 'seasoned to the climate'. Suman Seth explores forms of eighteenth-century medical knowledge, including conceptions of seasoning, showing how geographical location was essential to this knowledge and helped to define relationships between Britain and her far-flung colonies. In this period, debates raged between medical practitioners over whether diseases changed in different climes. Different diseases were deemed characteristic of different races and genders, and medical practitioners were thus deeply involved in contestations over race and the legitimacy of the abolitionist cause. In this innovative and engaging history, Seth offers dramatically new ways to understand the mutual shaping of medicine, race, and empire.
Author : Paul Slack
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199645914
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Invention of Improvement written by Paul Slack and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of improvement - gradual and cumulative betterment - was something new in 17th century England. It became commonplace to assert that improvements in agriculture, industry, commerce, and social welfare would bring infinite prosperity and happiness. The word improvement was itself new, and since it had no equivalent in other languages, it gave the English a distinctive culture of improvement which they took with them to Ireland, Scotland, and America. Slack explains the political, intellectual, and economic circumstances which allowed notions of improvement to take root.
