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Increase and multiply : governing cultural reproduction in early modern England /
Across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a growing notion of the value of a large populace created a sense of urgency about reproduction; accordingly, a wide array of English writers of the time voiced the need not merely to add more people but also to ensure that England had an abundance of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a growing notion of the value of a large populace created a sense of urgency about reproduction; accordingly, a wide array of English writers of the time voiced the need not merely to add more people but also to ensure that England had an abundance of the right kinds of people. This need, in turn, called for a variety of institutions to trainand thus make, through a kind of nonbiological procreationpious, enterprising, and dutiful subjects. In Increase and Multiply, David Glimp examines previously unexplored links between this emergent demograp. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxviii, 230 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-222) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0816693919 9780816693917 9780816639908 0816639906 9780816639915 0816639914 |