Politics and Population Control: A Documentary History

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What is population history about It's about birth rates, migration, and economies. It's about families, women, and babies. It is about agricultural production, military conflict, colonies, and race. In short, population history is the human story. This book shows that population issuesnumbers of people, how to feed them, their employment, racial makeup, intelligence, health, sexual behavior, and reproductionhave concerned authorities for centuries. The primary documents in this volume illustrate those concerns from the mid-18th century to the present. Provided is background information on each document and coverage of a variety of population perspectives. All of the concerns illustrated in this volume have helped to mold population policy. From the threat of a population explosion, familiar to those growing up in the 1960s, to birth control, women's rights, and lawmakers' desires to address social ills, this book covers a wide spectrum of issues. Included is a variety of documents, such as treatises, essays, speeches, articles, and passages from books. Tobin's introductory commentary provides a framework for the documents, pointing to their intent and significance. This is the only comprehensive source of documents on population, making it a valuable resource for both professional and armchair historians.

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[T]he ONLY comprehensive source of primary documents relating to world popular issues, covering the mid-18th century to modern times in an expansive collection unparalleled elsewhere.-MBR Internet Bookwatch/Library Bookwatch
"The ONLY comprehensive source of primary documents relating to world popular issues, covering the mid-18th century to modern times in an expansive collection unparalleled elsewhere."-MBR Internet Bookwatch/Library Bookwatch
"[T]he ONLY comprehensive source of primary documents relating to world popular issues, covering the mid-18th century to modern times in an expansive collection unparalleled elsewhere."-MBR Internet Bookwatch/Library Bookwatch

Author Bio

KATHLEEN A. TOBIN is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at Purdue University. She is the author of The Religious Debate over Birth Control (2001).