00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000008474 20200508204410 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 9780313059674 010-0520008474 eng 363.96 363.96/TOB/P Kathleen A. Tobin Politics and Population Control : A Documentary History Westport, CT 2004 171 p. <a href="https://link.gale.com/apps/pub/1TLV/GVRL?sid=gale_marc&u=idmk">e-book</a> Covers a wide spectrum of issues from the threat of a population explosion, to birth control, women's rights, and lawmakers' desires to address social ills. Includes primary documents that illustrate population issues from the mid-18th century to the present. What is population history about? It's about birth rates, migration, and economies. It's about families, women, and babies. It is about agricultural production, military conflict, colonies, and color. In short, population history is the human story. This book shows that population issues--numbers of people, how to feed them, their employment, racial makeup, intelligence, health, sexual behavior, and reproduction--have concerned authorities for centuries. The primary documents in this volume illustrate those concerns from the mid-18th century to the present. Provided is background information on each document and coverage of a variety of population perspectives. Population Policy - History - Sources Birth Control - History - Sources