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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1767
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1096623553
Author : Thomas Short
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Epidemics
ISBN : OCLC:289550415
Author : Thomas Short
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1767
Category : Epidemics
ISBN : OSU:32435017644006
Author : Thomas Short
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1767
Category : Epidemics
ISBN : LCCN:nuc87720400
Author : Thomas Short
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1767
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:252877263
Author : Charlotte Sussman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812252026
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 Peopling the World, Charlotte Sussman asks how and why this shift took place. How did Britain's understanding of the value of reproduction, the vacancy of the planet, and the necessity of moving people around to fill its empty spaces change? Sussman addresses these questions through readings of texts by Malthus, Milton, Swift, Defoe, Goldsmith, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, and others, and by placing these authors in the context of debates about scientific innovation, emigration, cultural memory, and colonial settlement. Sussman argues that a shift in thinking about population and mobility occurred in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. Before that point, both political and literary texts were preoccupied with "useless" populations that could be made useful by being dispersed over Britain's domestic and colonial territories; after 1760, a concern with the depopulation caused by emigration began to take hold. She explains this change in terms of the interrelated developments of a labor theory of value, a new idea of national identity after the collapse of Britain's American empire, and a move from thinking of reproduction as a national resource to thinking of it as an individual choice. She places Malthus at the end of this history because he so decisively moved thinking about population away from a worldview in which there was always more space to be filled and toward the temporal inevitability of the whole world filling up with people.
Author : William M. Cavert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107073005
William M. Cavert investigates the origins of urban air pollution, explaining how this problem arose during the early modern period.
Author : Paula R. Backscheider,Catherine Ingrassia
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405192453
A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts. An up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novel Furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral context Foregrounds those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century Explores formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period, and its lasting legacy Covers both traditional themes, such as narrative authority and print culture, and cutting-edge topics, such as globalization, nationhood, technology, and science Considers both canonical and non-canonical literature
Author : Mary Allerton Kilbourne Matossian
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0300051212
Did food poisoning cause the Black Plague, the Salem witch-hunts, and other significant events in human history? In this pathbreaking book, historian Mary Kilbourne Matossian argues that epidemics, sporadic outbursts of bizarre behavior, and low fertility and high death rates from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries may have been caused by food poisoning from microfungi in bread, the staple food in Europe and America during this period. "A bold book with a stimulating thesis. Matossian's claims for the role of food poisoning will need to be incorporated into any satisfactory account of past demographic trends."--John Walter, Nature "Matossian's work is innovative and original, modest and reasoned, and opens a door on our general human past that historians have not only ignored, but often did not even know existed."--William Richardson, Environmental History Review "This work demonstrates an impressive variety of cross-national sources. Its broad sweep also reveals the importance of the history of agriculture and food and strengthens the view that the shift from the consumption of mold-poisoned rye bread to the potato significantly contributed to an improvement in the mental and physical health of Europeans and Americans."--Naomi Rogers, Journal of American History "This work is a true botanical-historical tour de force."--Rudolf Schmid, Journal of the International Association of Plant Taxonomy "Intriguing and lucid."--William K. Beatty, Journal of the American Medical Association
Author : Ted McCormick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009123266
Shows how modern demographic thought began not with counting individuals but with manipulating marginalized and colonized groups.
Author : Paul Slack
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199645916
The idea of improvement - gradual and cumulative betterment - was something new in 17th century England. It became commonplace to assert that improvements in agriculture, industry, commerce, and social welfare would bring infinite prosperity and happiness. The word improvement was itself new, and since it had no equivalent in other languages, it gave the English a distinctive culture of improvement which they took with them to Ireland, Scotland, and America. Slack explains the political, intellectual, and economic circumstances which allowed notions of improvement to take root.
Author : Neil Hanson
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470450703
Acclaim for The Great Fire of London "Popular narrative history at its best, well researched, imaginatively and dramatically written. . . . The author marshals his story and his mass of contemporary quotations with great skill." —Times Literary Supplement "The brilliance of its narrative chapters . . . a marvelous eye for evocative detail. Hanson’s prose is animated by the ferocious energy of the fire and seems to be guided by its inexorable movement. He creates the literary equivalent of the special effects in a disaster movie. . . . A rich mixture of imagination and research." —The Daily Telegraph (London) "He writes with knowledge and verve. As if making a television documentary on a natural disaster, he includes a gripping technical chapter on the mechanism and chemistry of combustion. This works brilliantly. . . . The book gains immeasurably from the author's eye for detail and from his understanding of the beliefs and prejudices of the day. . . . Informative and lively account." —The Sunday Times (London) "The best depiction of the Great Fire seen to date. . . . He manages to describe not only the atmosphere of the event itself, but also the experience of living in seventeenth-century Britain." —Soho Independent "A riveting book for those who like their history with a bit of mystery." —The Brisbane News "A rollicking good yarn." —The Age (Melbourne) "Blends high-class original research with a narrative style that mimics fiction. . . . Horrific subjects have served this man well and he has a knack for plugging into the dark themes that run like molten rivers beneath our social veneer." —New Zealand Herald "Neil Hanson’s descriptions of the inferno are like CNN reports from Kosovo." —Camden New Journal "It's not the technical data which makes the book so riveting though. It's the flair with which Hanson invests his account with qualities usually reserved for novels–narrative drive, persuasive character sketches, vivid scene stealing." —Sunday Star Times (New Zealand)
Author : Peter Elmer
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0719067340
"The book will appeal to students, teachers, health workers and general readers who wish to develop a critical awareness of medicine in the past. The essays are complemented by a selection of primary and secondary readings in the companion volume, Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500-1800: A Source Book."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : John Ramsay McCulloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
ISBN : HARVARD:HB9RMI
Author : Suman Seth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108418300
Suman Seth reveals how histories of medicine, empire, race and slavery intertwined in the eighteenth-century British Empire.