Strength in numbers : population, reproduction, and power in eighteenth-century France / Carol Blum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blum, Carol, 1934-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human reproduction--Moral and ethical aspects--France--History--18th century.

Human reproduction.

Sexual ethics--France--History--18th century.

Sexual ethics.

Social values--France--History--18th century.

Social values.

France--Population policy--History--18th century.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Centered on the eighteenth-century struggle to define moral authority, Strength in Numbers is the account of freethinkers' campaigns against the Church and monarchy; of the conflicts concerning the good and evil of "naturalsexuality; and of the ways in which natalism was used not only as a passive instrument in the wars of Enlightenment but as an active force shaping mentalities.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter One: The Value of Kings

Chapter Two: and the "Depopulation Letters"

Chapter Three: Celibacy

Chapter Four: Divorce, the Demographic Spur

Chapter Five: Polygamy

Chapter Six: Rousseau and the Paradoxes of Reproduction

Chapter Seven: Population Politics in Revolution

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-7468-8

OCLC:

70759055