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Author: Carol Blum (State University of New York, Stony Brook)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.522kg
ISBN: 9780801868108
ISBN 10: 0801868106
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 03 May 2002
Recommended Age: From 17
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
<p> Strength in Numbers is destined to become an essential reference for scholars and students of eighteenth-century French culture and literature... A complete and insightful overview of the beginnings of modern population anxiety.--Mary McAlpin Journal of the History of Sexuality (01/01/0001)
All dix-huitiA]mistes have something to learn from this subtle and lucid book. -- Jeffrey Merrick, Journal of Modern History
Blum has provided a rich body of material and insights that will be utilized by historians of sexuality, gender, and the family in the future. -- David Klinck H-France Examining a wide range of major and minor writings, Blum skillfully disentangles various threads of natalist thought advocating divorce, attacking the Church's position on celibacy, and even fantasizing about polygamy in the cause of procreation. Choice Carol Blum has written a fascinating and very readable history of an odd controversy that provoked spirited polemics from the famous and not-so-famous of eighteenth-century France: the depopulation of the nation... Scholars of French intellectual and social history will learn a great deal from Blum's brief but deft handling of the ideas of a wide range of authors. -- Kevin McQuillan American Historical Review All dix-huitiemistes have something to learn from this subtle and lucid book. -- Jeffrey Merrick Journal of Modern History 2004 In tracing the rise of demography as an administrative science in in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France, Blum demonstrates that debates about population helped to undermine the traditional authorities of Church and Crown. -- Lisa Jane Graham Journal of Interdisciplinary History A work of originality and insight. It explores a completely neglected dimension of French population thought, and in so doing adds depth and context to the historiography of eighteenth-century ideologies of gender. -- John Shovlin Histoire Sociale 2003 A rich and well-crafted book... Blum is particularly adept at combining the different kinds of sources that participated in a sort of extended dialogue throughout the eighteenth century... Blum's concluding chapter is a tour de force, and should stand as a model for anyone trying to do intellectual or cultural history that connects to society. -- Cynthia J. Koepp Eighteenth-Century Studies 2003 Strength in Numbers is destined to become an essential reference for scholars and students of eighteenth-century French culture and literature... A complete and insightful overview of the beginnings of modern population anxiety. -- Mary McAlpin Journal of the History of Sexuality 2003
Author Information
Carol Blum is Research Professor of Humanities at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. She is the author of Diderot, the Virtue of a Philosopher and Rousseau and the Republic of Virtue: The Language of Politics in the French Revolution.
