Global Population

Alison Bashford is a historian whose many books connect imperial and world history with medical and environmental histories. She is the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge, and has taught at Harvard University, the Australian National University, and, for many years, at the University of Sydney. In 2011, she won the Cantemir Prize with Philippa Levine for The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics.

Acknowledgments Introduction: Life and Earth Part I. The Long Nineteenth Century 1. Confined in Room: A Spatial History of Malthusianism Part II. The Politics of Earth, 1920s and 1930s 2. War and Peace: Population, Territory, and Living Space 3. Density: Universes with Definite Limits 4. Migration: World Population and the Global Color Line 5. Waste Lands: Sovereignty and the Anticolonial History of World Population Part III. The Politics of Life, 1920s and 1930s 6. Life on Earth: Ecology and the Cosmopolitics of Population 7. Soil and Food: Agriculture and the Fertility of the Earth 8. Sex: The Geopolitics of Birth Control 9. The Species: Human Difference and Global Eugenics Part IV. Between One World and Three Worlds, 1940s to 1968 10. Food and Freedom: A New World of Plenty? 11. Life and Death: The Biopolitical Solution to a Geopolitical Problem 12. Universal Rights? Population Control and the Powers of Reproductive Freedom Conclusion: The Population Bomb in the Space Age Notes Archival Collections Index