Includes bibliographical references (pages [224]-253) and index.
Contents
Politics and paradigms: the origins of Malthusian theory -- Ireland: the "promised land" of Malthusian theory? -- Malthusian transformations: from eugenics to environmentalism -- Malthusianism, demography and the cold war -- The life and death of land reform -- False premises, false promises: Malthusianism and the green revolution -- The technology of non-revolutionary change and the demise of peasant agriculture -- Malthusianism after the cold war: the struggle continues.