Strength in Numbers
Population, Reproduction, and Power in Eighteenth-Century France
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Word Count
70,000 words, Guess
Page Count
280 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7870797M
- ISBN-139780801868108
- ISBN-100801868106
- OCLC Control Number46456241
- Library of Congress Control Number2001001521
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- Goodreads531312
Classifications
- LCCHB3593.B58 2002
- LCCHB3593 .B58 2002
Description
"In the eighteenth century France became convinced it was losing population. While not technically true (France was merely failing to gain population as rapidly as Great Britain and the German states), the public's belief in a national fertility crisis had far-reaching consequences. In Strength in Numbers: Population, Reproduction, and Power in Eighteenth-Century France, Carol Blum shows how intellectuals used "natalism" as a means of criticizing the monarchy and the Catholic Church in their pursuit of social change."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
Louis XIV (1638-1715), King of France and Navarre, was theoretically an absolute monarch.
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