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Book A History of the Malthusian League  1877 1927

Download or read book A History of the Malthusian League 1877 1927 written by Rosanna Ledbetter and published by Columbus : Ohio State University. This book was released on 1976 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Organization that Delayed Birth Control

Download or read book The Organization that Delayed Birth Control written by Rosanna Ledbetter and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Malthusian League  1877 1927

Download or read book The Malthusian League 1877 1927 written by Malthusian League and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Malthusian League  1877 1927

Download or read book The Malthusian League 1877 1927 written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the Malthusian League  1877 1927

Download or read book A History of the Malthusian League 1877 1927 written by Rosanna Ledbetter and published by Columbus : Ohio State University. This book was released on 1976 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Malthusian Handbook

Download or read book The Malthusian Handbook written by The Malthusian League and published by Echo Library. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Malthusian League was a British organisation which advocated the practice of contraception and education of the public about the importance of family planning. It was established in 1877 and was dissolved in 1927. The organisation was secular, utilitarian and individualistic, maintaining that it was concerned about the poverty of the British working class, and that over-population was the chief cause of poverty. The league was initially founded during the trial of Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh in July 1877 who were prosecuted for publishing Charles Knowlton's Fruits of Philosophy which explained various methods of birth control, becoming a permanent body to advocate the elimination of penalties for promoting birth control and further public education on the issue of contraception. This handbook was 'Designed to induce Married People to Limit their Families within their Means' and is reprinted from the fourth edition of 1898.

Book The Malthusian League

Download or read book The Malthusian League written by and published by . This book was released on 1921* with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Malthusian League for Rational Birth Control  Founded in 1877

Download or read book The Malthusian League for Rational Birth Control Founded in 1877 written by Bessie Ingman Drysdale and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Malthus

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  • Author : Robert J. Mayhew
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2014-04-28
  • ISBN : 0674419413
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book Malthus written by Robert J. Mayhew and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Robert Malthus’s An Essay on the Principle of Population was an immediate succès de scandale when it appeared in 1798. Arguing that nature is niggardly and that societies, both human and animal, tend to overstep the limits of natural resources in “perpetual oscillation between happiness and misery,” he found himself attacked on all sides—by Romantic poets, utopian thinkers, and the religious establishment. Though Malthus has never disappeared, he has been perpetually misunderstood. This book is 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. Against the ferment of Enlightenment ideals about the perfectibility of mankind and the grim realities of life in the eighteenth century, Robert Mayhew explains the genesis of the Essay and Malthus’s preoccupation with birth and death rates. He traces Malthus’s collision course with the Lake poets, his important revisions to the Essay, and composition of his other great work, Principles of Political Economy. Mayhew suggests we see the author in his later writings as an environmental economist for his persistent concern with natural resources, land, and the conditions of their use. Mayhew then pursues Malthus’s many afterlives in the Victorian world and beyond. Today, the Malthusian dilemma makes itself felt once again, as demography and climate change come together on the same environmental agenda. By opening a new door onto Malthus’s arguments and their transmission to the present day, Robert Mayhew gives historical depth to our current planetary concerns.

Book The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics written by Alison Bashford and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philippa Levine is the Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. Her books include Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire, and The British Empire, Sunrise to Sunset. --

Book Malthus

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  • Author : William Petersen
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-01-16
  • ISBN : 1351309463
  • Pages : 438 pages

Download or read book Malthus written by William Petersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), one of the most influential of modern thinkers, is also one of the most misunderstood. Malthus' Essay on Population is a work that everyone cites but typically without having read it. This book offers a comprehensive and accurate exposition of his thought, integrating his better-known theory on population with his somewhat neglected analysis of economic development and social structure. In Petersen's Malthus both the general reader and the social scientist are given a basis for contrasting Malthus with competing theories. As a background to his exposition, Petersen discusses the trends since Malthus' day in fertility, mortality, and population growth. The book also has an accessible comparison of Malthus' economics with that of his contemporary, David Ricardo, as well as the links to the Keynesian thought of recent time. Petersen also comments on Malthus' stand on birth control, as well as on the rise of the neo-Malthusian movement and its successor in today's less developed countries. The review of both population trends and demographic theory over the past century and a half gives the reader a base from which he can judge in what respects Malthus did, or did not, forecast the future accurately. As Petersen points out, Malthus also influenced the evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin, as well as its offshoot, Social Darwinism. Malthus is an essential work not only for demographers and economists but for anyone interested in intellectual history. The late Robert Nisbet, in his review of the book for the New Republic, called it "the best exposition of Malthus to be found anywhere." William Petersen, Robert Lazarus Professor of Social Demography Emeritus at Ohio State University, is known throughout the profession as a leading demographer. He is also an elegant writer.

Book Bibliography of the History of Medicine

Download or read book Bibliography of the History of Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women and American Socialism  1870 1920

Download or read book Women and American Socialism 1870 1920 written by Mari Jo Buhle and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socialist women faced the often thorny dilemma of fitting their concern with women's rights into their commitment to socialism. Mari Jo Buhle examines women's efforts to agitate for suffrage, sexual and economic emancipation, and other issues and the political and intellectual conflicts that arose in response. In particular, she analyzes the clash between a nativist socialism influence by ideas of individual rights and the class-based socialism championed by German American immigrants. As she shows, the two sides diverged, often greatly, in their approaches and their definitions of women's emancipation. Their differing tactics and goals undermined unity and in time cost women their independence within the larger movement.

Book George Lansbury

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  • Author : John Shepherd
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2002-09-19
  • ISBN : 0191542059
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book George Lansbury written by John Shepherd and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-09-19 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The most lovable figure in modern politics' was how A.J.P Taylor described the Christian pacifist, George Lansbury. At 73 he took over the helm of the Labour Party of only 46 MPs in the Depression years of the 1930s. Throughout a remarkable life, Lansbury remained an extraordinary politician of the people, associated with a multitude of crusades for social justice. He resigned from Parliament to support 'Votes for Women', and for the next ten years edited the fiery Daily Herald. In 1921 Lansbury led the 'Poplar Rates Rebellion' - when thirty Labour councillors went willingly to prison in defiance of the government, the courts and their own party leadership. As Labour leader, Lansbury was known universally as a committed socialist an implacable opponent of capitalism and imperialism. He never sought personal wealth, travelled everywhere by public transport, and made his home in impoverished East London. His final years were spent in a tireless international peace crusade to prevent the drift towards another world war. In this major new biography, John Shepherd draws on an impressive range of research to reconstruct the life of a charismatic Labour pioneer. He reaffirms George Lansbury's standing at the heart of Old Labour and his importance to British politics as a whole.

Book A History of the Birth Control Movement in America

Download or read book A History of the Birth Control Movement in America written by Peter C. Engelman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This narrative history of one of the most far-reaching social movements in the 20th century shows how it defied the law and made the use of contraception an acceptable social practice—and a necessary component of modern healthcare. A History of the Birth Control Movement in America tells the extraordinary story of a group of reformers dedicated to making contraception legal, accessible, and acceptable. The engrossing tale details how Margaret Sanger's campaign beginning in 1914 to challenge anti-obscenity laws criminalizing the distribution of contraceptive information grew into one of the most far-reaching social reform movements in American history. The book opens with a discussion of the history of birth control methods and the criminalization of contraception and abortion in the 19th century. Its core, however, is an exciting narrative of the campaign in the 20th century, vividly recalling the arrests and indictments, banned publications, imprisonments, confiscations, clinic raids, mass meetings, and courtroom dramas that publicized the cause across the nation. Attention is paid to the movement's thorny alliances with medicine and eugenics and especially to its success in precipitating a profound shift in sexual attitudes that turned the use of contraception into an acceptable social and medical practice. Finally, the birth control movement is linked to court-won privacy protections and the present-day movement for reproductive rights.

Book Mill and Paternalism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gregory Claeys
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-05-09
  • ISBN : 0521761085
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book Mill and Paternalism written by Gregory Claeys and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giving prominence for the first time to Mill's abiding concern with Malthusianism and its impact on his key arguments respecting liberty, Mill and Paternalism explores Mill's strong commitment to population control, popular education, feminism and the leading role of intellectual elites, alongside his overarching interests in both liberty and equality.

Book A Prescription for Murder

Download or read book A Prescription for Murder written by Angus McLaren and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McLaren develops a historiographical survey on Victorian attitudes toward sexuality and morality, and their relation to violence as he describes the story of Dr. Thomas Cream. Cream murdered prostitutes and women seeking abortions in England and North America between 1877 and 1892.