... about it partly explains why it broke out in the first place. The violence was a product of political dysfunction on the one hand and, on the other, the grievances and frustrations of the nationalist community. It combined negatively with the fear and insecurity of the unionist population and the wilful...

...This chapter focuses on the theme of death in Venice in the years after World War II. Venice's official population in 1951 stood at 174,808. A decade later, the tally in old Venice had dropped to 137,150. By 2001 there were only 65,695 people in Venetia. After ten years, the urban population...

...This chapter explains how activists can best approach the population issue in the United States. It argues for a rather new approach, one that resonates with Cairo rather than with the older tradition in which the roots of most American population activism lie. The chapter finds...

... population settlements, that forms or organization based on territorially defined polity emerged. In Africa, however, most societies combined the principles of kinship and territorial polity somehow in organizing loyalties and authority. For instance, in places like Nuer in East Africa, or Tallensi in West...

...This chapter reviews the path of agricultural revolution, considering Thomas Robert Malthus's argument in the Essay on Population. The Malthusian universe depended on culturally circumscribed assumptions that operated as theories of social hierarchies and human history...

.... These conflicts were accompanied, after the Restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, by violent clashes with France and Spain in the Caribbean. The 1670s and 1680s saw a pronounced expansion of colonial trade, a surge in the population of enslaved Africans, and the rapid development of the commercial...

...This chapter describes Benjamin Franklin's thought on population in America. Population has a bearing on many crucial features of modern life such as laws and customs governing reproduction, and the size of budgets for schools, hospitals, roads, and police. The politics of improvement was based...

...This chapter focuses on one of the most important Jewish intellectuals of the Ashkenazi population during the thirteenth century—Yohanan Alemanno. The family name that he adopted, Alemanno, was the Italian version of “Ashkenazi,” and he was very proud of his extraction. The young Yohanan studied...

...This chapter highlights the differences of La Isabela from other fifteenth-century towns in its virtually all-male population and its utterly isolated frontier position. It was nevertheless a community of people with many of the concerns common to households and communities everywhere: cooking...

...The first two decades during which European Americans dominated the Common Council in Los Angeles, the 1870s and 1880s, also witnessed the city's first land, real estate, and population booms. Los Angeles's population increased from five thousand to fifty thousand during these decades. This chapter...

...This chapter discusses the sour mood of political economy inbetween the period of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and T. R. Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population. It also focuses on the historical origins of the modern anxieties brought about...

...Beginning in the twelfth century, edicts of expulsion set in motion for the first time since early antiquity forced Jewish population movement. There have arguably been two further sources of pre-modern involuntary Jewish migration—repressive governmental edicts that made Jewish life spiritually...

...This chapter focuses on Georgian Britain's sustenance of its multiplying urban population. It pays attention to its expanding long-distance trade, its growing overseas settlements, its dynamic naval power, its assertive military campaigns, and its heightened political reputation. Successful towns...

...Immigration from the British Isles as well as from parts of the German speaking lands laid the basis for the white population of North America. The connection between place of origin and religion mattered much as immigrants decided where to settle and when but economic possibilities drew men...

... Population Pressure (1965), demonstrated how Malthus's assumptions were backward in their logic. Increased population did not follow a rise in agricultural productivity; on the contrary, an increase in numbers of people usually led to greater rural productivity. Seizing the Malthusian bias...

... was accelerated by demand abroad for English wool, the widespread enclosure of arable land for grazing sheep, rapid population growth, the English Reformation, and the impact of European–wide inflation on the stability of English life. Fishermen from England’s West Country ports began appearing on the coast...

...This introductory chapter begins by discussing demographic trends in Israel, in particular its population growth which has resulted in a social and environmental crisis. Rapid demographic growth exacerbates poverty and inequality, which have reached unprecedented dimensions in Israel. While public...

.... There is not enough room on the country's twenty thousand kilometers of paved motorways for the millions of people who use them. As population increases, road congestion will only get worse. Another calamitous outcome of rapid growth can be found in Israel's education system. While religious schools enjoy relatively...

...This chapter argues that if Israel wishes to change demographic trends and slow population growth, it must substitute existing programs and policies with others that stabilize population. Such an agenda for sustainability will need to: empower Israeli women and integrate them in the workplace...

...This chapter explores the relationships between people, populations, and African environmental politics. Opening with the example of Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, the chapter discusses how both human and non-human populations (such as trees) are managed through biopolitical...