An Essay on the Principle of Population
A Norton Critical Edition
Will be published approx. on 25. September 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
344 pages
978-1-324-00055-6 (ISBN)
Description
With the first published version of Malthus's Essay (1798) are selections from the expanded version (1803), which he considered definitive, as well as his Appendix (1806). Accompanying the text is an introduction and explanatory annotations by Joyce E. Chaplin and a rich selection of supporting materials. A chronology and a bibliography are also included.
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Series
Edition
Critical edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Critical edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
337 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-324-00055-6 (9781324000556)
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Persons
Joyce E. Chaplin is James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University. She has taught at five different universities on two continents and an island and in a maritime studies program in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. She is the author of An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 (1993), Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 (2001), The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius (2006), and Benjamin Franklin's Political Arithmetic: A Materialist View of Humanity (2009).