{"product_id":"the-new-worlds-of-thomas-alison-bashford-9780691177915","title":"The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Rereading the Principle of Population","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn ambitious global history that fundamentally alters our understanding of Malthus\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus\u003c\/i\u003e is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's \u003ci\u003eEssay on the Principle of Population\u003c\/i\u003e, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's \u003ci\u003eEssay\u003c\/i\u003e is also persistently misunderstood. First published anonymously in 1798, the \u003ci\u003eEssay\u003c\/i\u003e systematically argues that population growth tends to outpace its means of subsistence unless kept in check by factors such as disease, famine, or war, or else by lowering the birth rate through such means as sexual abstinence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChallenging the widely held notion that Malthus's \u003ci\u003eEssay\u003c\/i\u003e was a product of the British and European context in which it was written, Alison Bashford and Joyce Chaplin demonstrate that it was the new world, as well as the old, that fundamentally shaped Malthus's ideas. They explore what the Atlantic and Pacific new worlds-from the Americas and the Caribbean to New Zealand and Tahiti-meant to Malthus, and how he treated them in his \u003ci\u003eEssay\u003c\/i\u003e. Bashford and Chaplin reveal how Malthus, long vilified as the scourge of the English poor, drew from his principle of population to conclude that the extermination of native populations by European settlers was unjust. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElegantly written and forcefully argued, \u003ci\u003eThe New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus\u003c\/i\u003e relocates Malthus's \u003ci\u003eEssay\u003c\/i\u003e from the British economic and social context that has dominated its reputation to the colonial and global history that inspired its genesis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alison Bashford, Joyce E. Chaplin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691177910\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691177915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/07\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d","brand":"Alison Bashford","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43925627666687,"sku":"9780691177915","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e6f1d621-04e4-4502-a0f2-0873874e970e.jpg?v=1681078396","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-new-worlds-of-thomas-alison-bashford-9780691177915","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}