Procreation and Population in Historical Social Science.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Danna, Daniela, 1967-

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population--Social aspects.

Population.

Reproduction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages)

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Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

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

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9781785277177

1785277170

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40030692338

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