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The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus

Edited by E. A. Wrigley; David Souden

  • Published: 2010
  • DOI: 10.4324/9781851960019
  • Set ISBN: 9781851960019

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An Essay on the Principle of Population (1826) Part I

A comparison of the volume of writing, or the number and breadth of authorities cited, between the first edition of Malthus’s Essay and the second, shows just how much he achieved in the five years between 1798 and 1803. Essentially, Malthus wrote a new work. In 1798 he had argued against speculations on the ‘future improvement of society’; in 1803 the Essay was a view of population’s ‘past and present effects on human happiness, with an inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occasions’.

Volume Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction to volumes two and three By David Souden
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    Concordance of chapter titles
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    Notes on the printing of variant texts
  • An essay on the principle of population, 1826: With variant readings from the second edition, 1803 By Thomas Robert Malthus
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      Prelims
    • Of the checks to population in the less civilized parts of the world and in past times
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        I
        Statement of The Subject: Ratios of the increase of population and food
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        II
        Of the general checks to population, and the mode of their operation
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        III
        Of the checks to population in the lowest stage of human society
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        IV
        Of the checks to population among the American Indians
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        V
        Of the checks to population in the islands of the South Sea
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        VI
        Of the checks to population among the ancient inhabitants of the north of Europe
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        VII
        Of the checks to population among modern pastoral nations
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        VIII
        Of the checks to population in different parts of Africa
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        IX
        Of the checks to population in Siberia, Northern and Southern
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        X
        Of the checks to population in the Turkish dominions and Persia
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        XI
        Of the checks to population in Hindustan and Tibet
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        XII
        Of the checks to population in China and Japan
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        XIII
        Of the checks to population among the Greeks
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        XIV
        Of the checks to population among the Romans
    • Of the checks to population in the different states of modern Europe
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        I
        Of the checks to population in Norway
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        II
        Of the checks to population in Sweden
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        III
        Of the checks to population in Russia
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        IV
        Of the checks to population in the middle parts of Europea
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        V
        Of the checks to population in Switzerland
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        VI
        Of the checks to population in France
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        VII
        Of the checks to population in France (continued)
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        VIII
        Of the checks to population in England
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        IX
        Of the checks to population in England (continued)
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        Of the checks to population in Scotland and Ireland
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        XI
        On the fruitfulness of marriages
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        XII
        Effects of epidemics on registers of births, deaths, and marriages
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        XIII
        General deductions from the preceding view of society