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Reviewed on March 1, 1993
In 1798 Thomas Robert Malthus wrote his famous treatise Essay on Population in which he gloomily contemplated the future of the West as it fell beneath the crush of overpopulation. Technology and emigration saved 19th-century England from Malthus's dire warnings. Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers ( LJ 12/87), focuses his new ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More