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Global Population - History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth (Paperback)
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Global Population - History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth (Paperback)
Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History
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Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with
the "population bomb" in 1968. It arose in the aftermath of World
War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching ecological,
agricultural, economic, and geopolitical consequences. The world
population problem concerned the fertility of soil as much as the
fertility of women, always involving both "earth" and "life."
Global Population traces the idea of a world population problem as
it evolved from the 1920s through the 1960s. The growth and
distribution of the human population over the planet's surface came
deeply to shape the characterization of "civilizations" with
different standards of living. It forged the very ideas of
development, demographically defined three worlds, and, for some,
an aspirational "one world." Drawing on international conference
transcripts and personal and organizational archives, this book
reconstructs the twentieth-century population problem in terms of
migration, colonial expansion, globalization, and world food plans.
Population was a problem in which international relations and
intimate relations were one. Global Population ultimately shows how
a geopolitical problem about sovereignty over land morphed into a
biopolitical solution, entailing sovereignty over one's person.
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