An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings
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- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
26 August 2015
Summary
The provocative historical work on social economy, demography and population control.
Malthus’ life’s work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798. He predicted what is known as the Malthusian catastrophe, in which humans would disregard the limits of natural resources and the world would be plagued by famine and disease. He significantly influenced the thinking of Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141392820 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141392827 |
| Author: | Thomas Malthus, Robert Mayhew |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 26 August 2015 |
| Weight: | 257g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Thomas Malthus
After graduating from Cambridge, Thomas Malthus settled in Hertfordshire as a lecturer in history and political economy at the East India Company College. Among his many works, An Essay on the Principle of Population was the most successful and most outrageous. He boldly opposed popular Enlightenment ideals of the 18th-century.
Robert Mayhew is Professor of Historical Geography and Intellectual History at Bristol University. In 2014 he published Malthus- The Life and Legacies of an Untimely Prophet.
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