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Procreation and population in historical social science /
The book sees procreation, the forgotten basis of population dynamics, and its macrohistorical results through the lenses of world-system analysis. This interdisciplinary book sheds light on the historical paths leading to the current unprecedented numbers of humans on the globe, fuelled by the capi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Anthem Press,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Int-8
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Population, Procreation and Modes of Production
- 1.1 The Microhistorical Level
- 1.2 The Macrohistorical Level
- 1.3 Industrial Society in Perspective
- 1.4 Sources on Population
- 1.5 Current Data
- Chapter 2 Historical Social Science
- 2.1 Historical Social Structures
- 2.2 World-Systems Analysis in Brief
- 2.3 Wallerstein's World-System
- 2.4 What Is Technology?
- 2.5 Other Modes of Production in Capitalism
- 2.6 World-Systems and Population
- 2.7 Institutions of the World-Economy and Population
- Chapter 3 The Principle of Population versus the Law of Capitalist Accumulation
- 3.1 Malthus's Message
- 3.2 A Biological Mechanism?
- 3.3 Population, Work and Technology in Marx
- 3.4 The Work of Boys and Girls
- 3.5 The Role of the Population in Marxism
- 3.6 Malthus Today
- Chapter 4 Demography and Its Myths
- 4.1 Naturalizations and Reifications
- 4.2 Notestein's Demographic Transition
- 4.3 Economic and Cultural Irrationality?
- 4.4 Theory and Data
- 4.5 Tribute to Demographic Expansion
- 4.6 The Second Demographic Transition
- 4.7 Why Did Mortality Fall?
- 4.8 Caldwell's Review
- Chapter 5 Dynamics of Pre- Industrial Populations
- 5.1 Ancient Populations
- 5.2 Pre-Industrial Cycles
- 5.3 Structural-Demographic Analysis
- 5.4 New Studies
- 5.5 Climate Cycles
- Chapter 6 Labor Demand and the Industrial Revolution
- 6.1 The Demand for Labor Theory
- 6.2 Modes of Production and Reproduction
- 6.3 Proto-Industrialization and Industrialization
- Chapter 7 Population Growth in Incorporated Areas
- 7.1 The European Expansion
- 7.2 The Two Stages of Incorporation
- 7.3 Colonization and Population
- 7.4 Famines and Looting
- 7.5 Inversion of the Growth Curve
- Chapter 8 Development, Population and Energy
- 8.1 Adapting to the Environment or Changing It
- 8.2 Overpopulation?
- 8.3 The Environmental Unsustainability of Capitalism
- 8.4 EROI and the Future of Capitalism
- 8.5 Conclusion: Population in the Post-Fossil Fuels Era
- End Matter
- References and Datasets
- Datasets
- Index