Global Population : History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth.

Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the Baby Boomers. Overpopulation as a conceptual problem originated after World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching ecological, agricultural, economic, and geopolitical consequences. This study traces the ide...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alison
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Colección:Columbia studies in international and global history.
Temas:
Population > Social aspects.
Population > Economic aspects.
Population > History.
Population.
Demography.
Population
Population Dynamics
Socioeconomic Factors
Demography
Population > Aspect économique.
Population > Histoire.
Démographie.
population.
demography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Demography.
HISTORY > General.
HISTORY > World.
Population > Economic aspects
Population > Social aspects
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the Baby Boomers. Overpopulation as a conceptual problem originated after World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching ecological, agricultural, economic, and geopolitical consequences. This study traces the idea of a world population problem as it developed from the 1920s through the 1950s, long before the late-1960s notion of a postwar?population bomb." Drawing on international conference transcripts, the volume reconstructs the twentieth-century discourse on population as an international issue concerned wi
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 466 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1306313570
9781306313575
9780231519526
0231519524

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