Human Empire
Author | : Ted McCormick |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2022-04-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781009275583 |
ISBN-13 | : 1009275585 |
Rating | : 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
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: Examines the emergence of population as an object of knowledge and governance through attempts to manage poverty, vagrancy, colonization, slavery, religious difference, and empire in the early modern British Atlantic world. This engaging study connects the history of demographic ideas to early modern intellectual, political, and colonial contexts.