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  • Debating Malthus

    A Documentary Reader on Population, Resources, and the Environment

    by Paul S. Sutter ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics
    Introducing students to the place of population in environmental thinkingFor centuries, thinking about the earth's increasing human population has been tied to environmental ideas and political action. This highly teachable collection of contextualized primary sources allows students to follow European and North American discussions about intertwined and evolving concepts of population, resources, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Geographies of Knowledge

    Science, Scale, and Spatiality in the Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Robert J. Mayhew, Charles W. J. Withers ...
    Series series Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context
    A path-breaking exploration of how space, place, and scale influenced the production and circulation of scientific knowledge in the nineteenth century.Over the past twenty years, scholars have increasingly questioned not just historical presumptions about the putative rise of modern science during the long nineteenth century but also the geographical contexts for and variability of science during ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Malthus

    by Robert J. Mayhew ...
    Though Robert Malthus has never disappeared, he has been perpetually misunderstood. Robert Mayhew offers at once a major reassessment of Malthus's ideas and an intellectual history of the origins of modern debates about demography, resources, and the environment, giving historical depth to our current planetary concerns. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • New Perspectives on Malthus

    Edited by Robert J. Mayhew ...
    Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) was a pioneer in demography, economics and social science more generally whose ideas prompted a new 'Malthusian' way of thinking about population and the poor. On the occasion of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, New Perspectives on Malthus offers an up-to-date collection of interdisciplinary essays from leading Malthus experts who reassess ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • What's Wrong with Benevolence

    Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment

    by David Stove ...
    Is benevolence a virtue? In many cases it appears to be so. But when it comes to the enlarged benevolence” of the Enlightenment, David Stove argues that the answer is clearly no. In this insightful, provocative essay, Stove builds a case for the claim that when benevolence is universal, disinterested and external, it regularly leads to the forced redistribution of wealth, which in turn leads to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Malthus

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Donald Winch ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English cleric whose ideas, as expounded in his most famous work the Essay on the Principle of Population, caused a storm of controversy. In this Very Short Introduction, Donald Winch explains and clarifies Malthus's ideas, assessing the profound influence he has had on modern economic thought. Concentrating on his writings, Winch sheds light on the context ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Scarcity

    A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis

    by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Carl Wennerlind ...
    A sweeping intellectual history of the concept of economic scarcity—its development across five hundred years of European thought and its decisive role in fostering the climate crisis.Modern economics presumes a particular view of scarcity, in which human beings are innately possessed of infinite desires and society must therefore facilitate endless growth and consumption irrespective of nature’s ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • History in the Humanities and Social Sciences

    Edited by Richard Bourke, Quentin Skinner ...
    This interdisciplinary volume explores the relationship between history and a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences: economics, political science, political theory, international relations, sociology, philosophy, law, literature and anthropology. The relevance of historical approaches within these disciplines has shifted over the centuries. Many of them, like law and economics ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Environmental Ethics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robin Attfield ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Environmental ethics is a relatively new branch of philosophy, which studies the values and principles involved in combatting environmental problems such as pollution, loss of species and habitats, and climate change. As our environment faces evermore threats from human activities these core issues are becoming increasingly important. In this Very Short Introduction Robin Attfield traces the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Conservatism

    An Invitation to the Great Tradition

    by Roger Scruton ...
    A brief magisterial introduction to the conservative tradition by one of Britain's leading intellectuals."One of the most eloquent and even moving evocations of the conservative tradition in Western politics, philosophy and culture I have ever read . . . the ideal primer for those who are new to conservative ideas." — Wall Street JournalIn Conservatism, Roger Scruton offers the reader an ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • The Journey of Humanity

    The Origins of Wealth and Inequality

    by Oded Galor ...
    A landmark, radically uplifting account of our species’ progress, from one of the world's preeminent thinkers.“Unparalleled in its scope and ambition…All readers will learn something, and many will find the book fascinating.’—The Washington Post“Breathtaking. A new Sapiens!” —L'Express**“Completely brilliant and utterly original ... a book for our epoch.”—**Jon Snow, former presenter, Chan... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The houses of history

    A critical reader in history and theory, second edition

    by Anna Green, Kathleen Troup ...
    The houses of history is a clear, jargon-free introduction to the major theoretical approaches employed by historians. This innovative critical reader provides accessible introductions to fourteen schools of thought, from the empiricist to the postcolonial, including chapters on Marxist history, Freud and psychohistory, the Annales, historical sociology, narrative, gender, public history and the ... Read more

    $19.49 USD