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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...

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Autor principal: Glimp, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (260 pages).
ISBN:9780816693917