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Merchant, Emily R.

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Prediction and Control: Global Population, Population Science, and Population Politics in the Twentieth Century.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Prediction and Control: Global Population, Population Science, and Population Politics in the Twentieth Century./
Author:	Merchant, Emily R.
Description:	636 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-01A(E).
Subject:	World history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3722060
ISBN:	9781339039657

Prediction and Control: Global Population, Population Science, and Population Politics in the Twentieth Century.
Merchant, Emily R.

Prediction and Control: Global Population, Population Science, and Population Politics in the Twentieth Century. - 636 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2015.

The twentieth century was an exceptional period in the history of the world's population: it grew faster than it had before or has since, and became the subject of a new science - demography - as well as a critical arena of intervention for states, international agencies, and non-governmental organizations. This dissertation examines how population became a subject of expertise for scientists in North America and Western Europe between the world wars, and how that expertise both supported and challenged postwar programs that aimed to shape the world's population by limiting fertility, particularly in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

ISBN: 9781339039657Subjects--Topical Terms:

516198
World history.

Prediction and Control: Global Population, Population Science, and Population Politics in the Twentieth Century.
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520 $a At the beginning of the twentieth century, scientists and policy makers in North America and Western Europe increasingly understood social, political, and economic issues in biological terms, and viewed population engineering - through the control of fertility and immigration - as a key tool of governance. Between the world wars, scientists in a variety of fields began to analyze population dynamics, including both the quantity of individuals and the socioeconomic, racial, and national composition of populations (their "quality"). After World War II, governments and international and nongovernmental agencies increasingly sought demographic expertise to assist with planning both for population - to accommodate expected changes in population size and/or composition - and of population - to engineer changes in population size and/or composition.
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