Arguing that demographic thought begins not with quantification but
in attempts to control the qualities of people, Human Empire traces
two transformations spanning the early modern period. First was the
emergence of population as an object of governance through a series
of engagements in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England,
Ireland, and colonial North America, influenced by humanist policy,
reason of state, and natural philosophy, and culminating in the
creation of political arithmetic. Second was the debate during the
long eighteenth century over the locus and limits of demographic
agency, as church, civil society, and private projects sought to
mobilize and manipulate different marginalized and racialized
groups - and as American colonists offered their own visions of
imperial demography. This innovative, engaging study examines the
emergence of population as an object of knowledge and governance
and connects the history of demographic ideas with their early
modern intellectual, political, and colonial contexts.
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