Global population history, geopolitics, and life on earth / [Texte imprimé] :
Alison Bashford
- New York : Columbia University Press, cop. 2014
- 1 vol. (XII-466 p.) : ill., cartes ; 24 cm
- Columbia studies in international and global history .
- Columbia studies in international and global history (Columbia University Press, New York) .
Notes biliogr.
Introduction: Life and earth -- Confined in room : a spatial history of malthusianism -- War and peace : population, territory, and living space -- Density : universes with definite limits -- Migration : world population and the global color line -- Waste lands : sovereignty and the anticolonial history of world population -- Life on earth : ecology and the cosmo-politics of population -- Soil and food : agriculture and the fertility of the earth -- Sex : the geopolitics of birth control -- The species : human difference and global eugenics -- Food and freedom : a new world of plenty? -- Life and death : the biopolitical solution to a geopolitical problem -- Universal rights? Population control and the powers of reproductive freedom -- Conclusion: Population in the space age