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- English
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About this book
This work traces the history of a debate which took place among the economists, political philosophers and writers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, about whether the benefits of scientific progress would be nullified by the growth of the global population.
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INDEX
Academy of Sciences, Paris 2
Acid rain 102
Act of Toleration 15
Agricultural revolution 96
Agricultural societies 68
Agriculture 28
Albury, Surrey 59
Alcohol-driven automobiles 104
Altruism 8
American Indians 66, 97
American war of independence 22
Anglican Church 57, 59, 71
Animals, similarity to humans 7
Anti-Catholic laws 90
Anti-Dissenter riots 23
Anti-Jacobin Review 40
Anti-malarial programme 103
Arithmetical growth 62
Arkwright 86
Asia 66
Attitudes of society to population 63
Automated agriculture 28
Automation 105
Balzac 32
Baring, Alexander 83
Bastille 19
Beaumarchais 18
Benevolence 26, 30, 47, 72, 73, 95
Bentham 23
Besant, Annie 90
Biodiversity 102
Biological diversity 116
Biology 93, 95
Biomass 104, 116
Birth control 11, 71, 87, 89, 107
Birth rate 68, 103
Blake, William 24
Bonar, James 75
Bradlaugh, Charles 90
Brazil 104, 106
Buddhism 96
Burke, Edmund 15, 18, 19, 20, 24, 77, 119
Byron, Lord 50, 51
Cairo population conference 108, 109
Calais 49
Calculus 2, 8
Calcutta 106
Caleb Williams 32
Calvinism 13
Cambridge University 57
Cannibalism 66
Canute, King 75
Capital 82, 101
Capital offenses 25
Carbon dioxide in the...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Condorcet
- Godwin
- Frankensteinās Monster
- Malthus
- The Iron Law
- Epilogue: Who Was Right?
- Appendix: Condorcetās Sur lāadmission des Femmes au droit de CitĆ©
- Bibliography
- Index