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The invention of scarcity : Malthus and the margins of history / Deborah Valenze.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Valenze, Deborah M., 1953- author.
- Series:
- Yale agrarian studies
- Yale agrarian studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834. Essay on the principle of population.
- Malthus, T. R.
- Essay on the principle of population (Malthus, T. R.).
- Food--Economic aspects--History.
- Food.
- Scarcity.
- Malthusianism.
- Food--Economic aspects.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "This radical new reading of the eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population exposes his narrow understanding of food production by examining subsistence activities such as hunting, herding, and gardening. In broadening our conception of human livelihoods and environments, we can uncover pathways to resistance against the hegemony of Malthusian political economy. Deborah Valenze uses history, anthropology, food studies, and animal studies to redirect our attention to the margins and recenter them as spaces of experimentation, nimbleness, and human flourishing"-- Page 4 of cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300246137
- 9780300246131
- OCLC:
- 1346943423
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