Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population (Paperback)

from liamfoley

A comprehensive history of the population control movement needed to be written. It still does. Tedious and in that awful style typical of modern US historians, it's smug and smart alecy in a way that is welcome at faculty parties but of little use to those who want to know the facts. Buy it with...

from ElizabethPisani

This is an exhaustingly researched account of over a century of population policy. You probably think I mean to say exhaustively, but no, I mean exhaustingly. As a work of scholarship, it contains much of interest. But it is not exactly an easy read. And there are some surprising omissions. Conne...

from rivkat

Basically a policy history of the population control movement, focused on various unsavory alliances and splits in largely Western (and nonwestern elite) groups largely interested in overbreeding by people who weren't them, though always and increasingly in dialogue with advocates for improving e...