The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood. First published anonymously in 1798, the Essay sys
"A timely reappraisal of Malthus's writing on population within the context of eighteenth and early nineteenth century colonial expansion."---Jim Scown, British Society for Literature and Science