Please note : you need to verify every book you want to send to your Kindle. Check your mailbox for the verification email from Amazon Kindle. Related Booklists. Post a Review To post a review, please sign in or sign up. You can write a book review and share your experiences. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books you've read. French government officials have long been known among Europeans for the special attention they give to the state of their population.
In the first half of the nineteenth century, as Paris doubled in size and twice suffered the convulsions of popular revolution, civic leaders looked with alarm at what they deemed a dangerous population explosion. After defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in , however, the falling birthrate generated widespread fears of cultural and national decline. In response, legislators promoted larger families and the view that a well-regulated family life was essential for France. In this innovative work of cultural history, Joshua Cole examines the course of French thinking and policymaking on population issues from the s until the outbreak of the Great War.
During these decades increasingly sophisticated statistical methods for describing and analyzing such topics as fertility, family size, and longevity made new kinds of aggregate knowledge available to social scientists and government officials.
Cole recounts how this information heavily influenced the outcome of debates over the scope and range of public welfare legislation. Steffan Halled. Search this site. Read "What's Happening to Me? Lowi, Margaret Weir, Caroline J. Tolbert, Robert J. The most pedagogically innovative brief text now connecting western civilizations to broader global contexts and students own experiences.
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In this thoroughly revised 20th Edition, Joshua Cole U of Michigan and Carol Symes U of Illinois have new scholarship on migration and nationalism, and a dynamic suite of learning tools guides students from understanding the basics to analysis and interpretation" Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase.
How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Yet now, Ferguson shows how the Rest have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes and fusions of civilizations, Civilization: The West and the Rest recasts world history with force and wit.
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The year is , and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and—finally—the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of , when the disintegration of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order.
Writing from the Second People's Republic of China on the th anniversary of the Great Collapse, a senior scholar presents a gripping and deeply disturbing account of how the children of the Enlightenment—the political and economic elites of the so-called advanced industrial societies—failed to act, and so brought about the collapse of Western civilization.
Dynamic digital resources, including award-winning InQuizitive activities and new History Skills Tutorials for every chapter, guide students from basic understanding basics to analysis and interpretation.
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The Collapse of Western Civilization Author : Naomi Oreskes Publisher : Columbia University Press Release Date : Genre: Science Pages : ISBN 10 : GET BOOK The Collapse of Western Civilization Book Description : The year is , and a senior scholar of the Second People's Republic of China presents a gripping and deeply disturbing account of how the children of the Enlightenment, the political and economic elites of the so-called advanced industrial societies, entered into a Penumbral period in the early decades of the twenty-first century, a time when sound science and rational discourse about global change were prohibited and clear warnings of climate catastrophe were ignored.
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