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Strength in numbers : population, reproduction, and power in eighteenth-century France /
"In the eighteenth century France became convinced it was losing population. While not technically true (France was merely failing to gain population as rapidly as Great Britain and the German states), the public's belief in a national fertility crisis had far-reaching consequences. In Str...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In the eighteenth century France became convinced it was losing population. While not technically true (France was merely failing to gain population as rapidly as Great Britain and the German states), the public's belief in a national fertility crisis had far-reaching consequences. In Strength in Numbers: Population, Reproduction, and Power in Eighteenth-Century France, Carol Blum shows how intellectuals used "natalism" as a means of criticizing the monarchy and the Catholic Church in their pursuit of social change."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 261 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-250) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0801874688 9780801874680 0801868106 9780801868108 |