Alison Bashford Global Population (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Global PopulationCondition: NewEAN: 9780231147675ISBN: 9780231147675Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/25/2016Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Alison BashfordLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: History, Geopolitics, and Life on EarthISBN-10: 0231147678Description: Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the "population bomb" in 1968. It arose in the aftermath of World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching ecological, agricultural, economic, and geopolitical consequences. The world population problem concerned the fertility of soil as much as the fertility of women, always involving both "earth" and "life." Global Population traces the idea of a world population problem as it evolved from the 1920s through the 1960s. The growth and distribution of the human population over the planet's surface came deeply to shape the characterization of "civilizations" with different standards of living. It forged the very ideas of development, demographically defined three worlds, and, for some, an aspirational "one world." Drawing on international conference transcripts and personal and organizational archives, this book reconstructs the twentieth-century population problem in terms of migration, colonial expansion, globalization, and world food plans. Population was a problem in which international relations and intimate relations were one.Global Population ultimately shows how a geopolitical problem about sovereignty over land morphed into a biopolitical solution, entailing sovereignty over one's person.Country/Region of Manufacture: USBook Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global HistoryGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, HistoryRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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