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Author Blum, Carol, 1934-

Title Strength in numbers : population, reproduction, and power in eighteenth-century France / Carol Blum.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 261 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-250) and index.
Summary "In the eighteenth century France became convinced it was losing population. While not technically true (France was merely failing to gain population as rapidly as Great Britain and the German states), the public's belief in a national fertility crisis had far-reaching consequences. In Strength in Numbers: Population, Reproduction, and Power in Eighteenth-Century France, Carol Blum shows how intellectuals used "natalism" as a means of criticizing the monarchy and the Catholic Church in their pursuit of social change."--Jacket.
Contents ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter One: The Value of Kings ""; ""Chapter Two: and the “Depopulation Letters�""; ""Chapter Three: Celibacy""; ""Chapter Four: Divorce, the Demographic Spur""; ""Chapter Five: Polygamy""; ""Chapter Six: Rousseau and the Paradoxes of Reproduction""; ""Chapter Seven: Population Politics in Revolution""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
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Subject France -- Population policy -- History -- 18th century.
France.
Population policy.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Human reproduction -- Moral and ethical aspects -- France -- History -- 18th century.
Human reproduction -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Sexual ethics -- France -- History -- 18th century.
Sexual ethics.
Social values -- France -- History -- 18th century.
Social values.
Chronological Term 1700 - 1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Geschiedenis (vorm)
Other Form: Print version: Blum, Carol, 1934- Strength in numbers. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002 0801868106 (DLC) 2001001521 (OCoLC)46456241
ISBN 0801874688 (electronic book)
9780801874680 (electronic book)
0801868106 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780801868108 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

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