Fatal Misconception - The Struggle to Control World Population

Informationen zum Autor Matthew Connelly is Professor of History, Columbia University. Klappentext Connelly tells the disturbing story of a quest to remake ourselves by policing national borders and breeding better people. With its transnational scope and exhaustive research, this critique uncovers the cost inflicted by a misguided humanitarian movement and urges renewed commitment to the reproductive rights of all people. Zusammenfassung Connelly tells the disturbing story of a quest to remake ourselves by policing national borders and breeding better people. With its transnational scope and exhaustive research! this critique uncovers the cost inflicted by a misguided humanitarian movement and urges renewed commitment to the reproductive rights of all people. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Preface * Abbreviations * Introduction: How Biology Became History * Populations Out of Control * To Inherit the Earth * Populations at War * Birth of the Third World * The Population Establishment * Controlling Nations * Beyond Family Planning * A System without a Brain * Reproducing Rights! Reproducing Health * Conclusion: The Threat of the Future * Notes * Archives and Interviews * Acknowledgments * Index

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Connelly, Connelly Matthew
• Publisher: Belknap press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.12.2009
• EAN: 9780674034600
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03460-0
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 228 mm x 36 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, HISTORY / World, Science / Environmental Science, General and world history, Population and Demography, Environmental science, engineering and technology