Peopling the World: Representing Human Mobility from Milton to Malthus
Charlotte Sussman, "Peopling the World: Representing Human Mobility from Milton to Malthus"
English | ISBN: 0812252020 | 2020 | 304 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0812252020 | 2020 | 304 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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
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