Acknowledgments ................................................ ix
Introduction: Life and Earth .................................... 1
PART I The Long Nineteenth Century
1 Confined in Room: A Spatial History of Malthusianism ........ 29
PART II The Politics of Earth, 1920s and 1930s
2 War and Peace: Population, Territory, and Living Space ...... 55
3 Density: Universes with Definite Limits ..................... 81
4 Migration: World Population and the Global Color Line ...... 107
5 Waste Lands: Sovereignty and the Anticolonial History
of World Population ........................................ 133
PART III The Politics of Life, 1920s and 1930s
6 Life on Earth: Ecology and the Cosmopolitics of
Population ................................................. 157
7 Soil and Food: Agriculture and the Fertility of the Earth .. 181
8 Sex: The Geopolitics of Birth Control ...................... 211
9 The Species: Human Difference and Global Eugenics .......... 239
PART IV Between One World and Three Worlds, 1940s to 1968
10 Food and Freedom: A New World of Plenty? ................... 267
11 Life and Death: The Biopolitical Solution to a
Geopolitical Problem ....................................... 305
12 Universal Rights? Population Control and the Powers
of Reproductive Freedom .................................... 328
Conclusion: The Population Bomb in the Space Age .............. 355
Notes ......................................................... 365
Archival Collections .......................................... 445
Index ......................................................... 447
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