William Petty, the multiplication of mankind, and demographic discourse in seventeenth-century England
In the 1650ss, after a century of increase, the population of England stopped growing. It was not to increase substantially again before 1750. Over the same interval, and not wholly coincidentally, scholars and theologians were trying to defend the orthodox account of how global population had incre...
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Cambridge University Press
2017
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