An Essay on the Principle of Population, vol. 1 [1826, 6th ed.]
Vol. 1 of the 6th expanded edition of the work. There are two versions of Thomas Robert Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population. The first, published anonymously in 1798, was so successful that Malthus soon elaborated on it under his real name. The rewrite, culminating in the sixth edition of 1826, was a scholarly expansion and generalization of the first. In this work Malthus argues that there is a disparity between the rate of growth of population (which increases geometrically) and the rate of growth of agriculture (which increases only arithmetically). He then explores how populations have historically been kept in check.
An Essay on the Principle of Population, or a View of its 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 (London: John Murray 1826). 6th ed.
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the Fifth Edition
- ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SIXTH EDITION.
- Book I: OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION IN THE LESS CIVILIZED PARTS OF THE WORLD AND IN PAST TIMES.
- Book I, Chapter I: Statement of the Subject. Ratios of the Increase of Population and Food.
- Book I, Chapter II: Of the general Checks to Population, and the Mode of their Operation.
- Book I, Chapter III: Of the Checks to Population in the lowest Stage of Human Society.
- Book I, Chapter IV: Of the Checks to Population among the American Indians.
- Book I, Chapter V: Of the Checks to Population in the Islands of the South Sea.
- Book I, Chapter VI: Of the Checks to Population among the ancient Inhabitants of the North of Europe.
- Book I, Chapter VII: Of the Checks to Population among modern Pastoral Nations.
- Book I, Chapter VIII: Of the Checks to Population in different parts of Africa.
- Book I, Chapter IX: Of the Checks to Population in Siberia, Northern and Southern.
- Book I, Chapter X: Of the Checks to Population in the Turkish Dominions and Persia.
- Book I, Chapter XI: Of the Checks to Population in Indostan and Tibet.
- Book I, Chapter XII: Of the Checks to Population in China and Japan.
- Book I, Chapter XIII: Of the Checks to Population among the Greeks.
- Book I, Chapter XIV: Of the Checks to Population among the Romans.
- Book II: OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION IN THE DIFFERENT STATES OF MODERN EUROPE.
- Book II, Chapter I: Of the Checks to Population in Norway.
- Book II, Chapter II: Of the Checks to Population in Sweden.
- Book II, Chapter III: Of the Checks to Population in Russia.
- Book II, Chapter IV: Of the Checks to Population in the Middle Parts of Europe.
- Book II, Chapter V: Of the Checks to Population in Switzerland.
- Book II, Chapter VI: Of the Checks to Population in France.
- Book II, Chapter VII: Of the Checks to Population in France (continued).
- Book II, Chapter VIII: Of the Checks to Population in England.
- Book II, Chapter IX: Of the Checks to Population in England (continued).
- Book II, Chapter X: Of the Checks to Population in Scotland and Ireland.
- Book II, Chapter XI: On the Fruitfulness of Marriages.
- Book II, Chapter XII: Effects of Epidemics on Registers of Births, Deaths, and Marriages.
- Book II, Chapter XIII: General Deductions from the preceding View of Society.