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Human Empire
Mobility And Demographic Thought In The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800
- Editore:
Cambridge University Press
- Collana:
- Ideas In Context
- EAN:
9781009123266
- ISBN:
1009123262
- Pagine:
- 320
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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"This book traces two transformations in early modern English thinking about the governance of populations. The first, spanning the Tudor and early Stuart eras, was a shift in emphasis in defining the real object of demographic knowledge and intervention. While sixteenth-century engagements with what we would consider demographic entities and processes tended to identify particular, qualitatively defined groups (referred to here as "multitudes" to distinguish them from "population" as a quantity) as their units of analysis, by the middle decades of the seventeenth century something much closer to the national population, as a total and knowable number of people, had come to the fore"--
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