The Power of Large Numbers

by Joshua Cole

Book Overview

French government officials have long been known among Europeans for the special attention they give to the state of their population. In the first half of the nineteenth century, as Paris doubled in size and twice suffered the convulsions of popular revolution, civic leaders looked with alarm at what they deemed a dangerous population explosion. After defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, however, the falling birthrate generated widespread...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801437016
• ISBN13: 9780801437014
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher