PREFACE

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. PREFACE 5
3. CONTENTS 9
4. INTRODUCTION 13
5. CHAPTER I. CLASSICAL DOCTRINES 18
6. CHAPTER II. RELIGIONS AND POPULATION 40
7. CHAPTER III. FIRST MODERN VIEWS: FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH TO THE MIDDLE OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 88
8. CHAPTER IV. THE MERCANTILE SYSTEM AND POPULATION 118
9. CHAPTER V. MERCANTILIST AND OTHER WRITERS, PARTICULARLY IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE, 1660–1748 138
10. CHAPTER VI. THE CAMERALISTIC AND OTHER GERMAN LITERATURE ON POPULATION FROM PUFENDORF TO SUESSMILCH 185
11. CHAPTER VII. THEORIES OF POPULATION IN FRANCE, 1748–1776 224
12. CHAPTER VIII. ENGLISH, ITALIAN AND GERMAN DISCUSSIONS OF POPULATION, 1749–1775 266
13. CHAPTER IX. THEORIES OF POPULATION IN THE LAST QUARTER OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 308
14. CONCLUSION 351
15. VITA 357