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100 1  McCormick, Ted, |eauthor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009032721
245 10 Human empire : |bmobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic world, 1500-1800 / |cTed McCormick.
264  1 Cambridge : |bCambridge University Press, |c2022.
300    1 online resource (x, 300 pages) : |bdigital, PDF file(s).
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490 1  Ideas in context
500    Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).
520    Arguing that demographic thought begins not with quantification but in attempts to control the qualities of people, Human Empire traces two transformations spanning the early modern period. First was the emergence of population as an object of governance through a series of engagements in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, Ireland, and colonial North America, influenced by humanist policy, reason of state, and natural philosophy, and culminating in the creation of political arithmetic. Second was the debate during the long eighteenth century over the locus and limits of demographic agency, as church, civil society, and private projects sought to mobilize and manipulate different marginalized and racialized groups - and as American colonists offered their own visions of imperial demography. This innovative, engaging study examines the emergence of population as an object of knowledge and governance and connects the history of demographic ideas with their early modern intellectual, political, and colonial contexts.
650  0 Demography |xPolitical aspects |zGreat Britain |xHistory.
651  0 Great Britain |xColonies |xPopulation. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056650
651  0 Great Britain |xPolitics and government |y1485- |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056884
651  0 Great Britain |xIntellectual life. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056850
776 08  |iPrint version: |z9781009123266
830  0 Ideas in context