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Product Description: This fifth edition of the essential history of world population is updated with the most recent and significant scholarship on the topic. Reworked sections analyze the impact of environmental and climate change, discuss declining fertility in developing nations, and track the continuing impact of HIV-AIDS...read more
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9780631204541 | Blackwell Pub, December 1, 1997, cover price $78.95 | About this edition: This book describes and explains the history of human population.

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9780470673201 | 5th edition (Blackwell Pub, May 1, 2012), cover price $44.95 | also contains A Concise History of World Population | About this edition: This fifth edition of the essential history of world population is updated with the most recent and significant scholarship on the topic.

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Product Description: This fifth edition of the essential history of world population is updated with the most recent and significant scholarship on the topic. Reworked sections analyze the impact of environmental and climate change, discuss declining fertility in developing nations, and track the continuing impact of HIV-AIDS...read more
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9781405146951 | 4th edition (Blackwell Pub, September 29, 2006), cover price $116.95 | About this edition: The new edition of this standard history of world population has been updated to include projections to the year 2050.
9780631223344 | 3 sub edition (Blackwell Pub, July 12, 2001), cover price $119.95 | About this edition: The new edition of this standard history of world population has been updated to include projections to the year 2050.
9781557862693 | Blackwell Pub, September 1, 1992, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: This is a concise account of the history of the human population of the world including the history of migrations, the effects of plagues, wars, fertility transitions, mortality, fecundity, marriage and family patterns.

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9780470673201 | 5th edition (Blackwell Pub, May 1, 2012), cover price $44.95 | also contains A Concise History of World Population | About this edition: This fifth edition of the essential history of world population is updated with the most recent and significant scholarship on the topic.
9781405146968 | 4th edition (Blackwell Pub, September 29, 2006), cover price $47.95 | About this edition: The new edition of this standard history of world population has been updated to include projections to the year 2050.
9780631204558 | Blackwell Pub, June 1, 1997, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: This book describes and explains the history of human population.
9781557862709 | Blackwell Pub, September 1, 1992, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This is a concise account of the history of the human population of the world including the history of migrations, the effects of plagues, wars, fertility transitions, mortality, fecundity, marriage and family patterns.

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Product Description: Ordinary citizens the world over have long paid the price for the swashbuckling behavior of the corporate and political elite. We've seen the reigning establishment widen the gap between rich and poor, champion endless growth on a finite planet, wreak havoc on developing nations, and ravage ecosystems in a mad race for natural resources...read more
By Hazel Henderson (foreword by) and Jackson
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9781603583886 | Chelsea Green Pub Co, January 24, 2012, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Ordinary citizens the world over have long paid the price for the swashbuckling behavior of the corporate and political elite.

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Product Description: Demographics class just got a lot more interesting. POPULATION does not just give you the information; it shows you how to use it. From the debate over how to rebuild the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina to what should be done about Social Security and Medicare, POPULATION lets you apply the research yourself...read more
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9781111185978 | 11 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, January 1, 2011), cover price $226.95 | About this edition: Demographics class just got a lot more interesting.
9780534529796 | 8th edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, December 1, 2001), cover price $92.95 | About this edition: A well known and well respected author provides this comprehensive yet accessible book that introduces population issues, concepts and theories.
9780534553050 | 7 sub edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, October 1, 1998), cover price $87.95 | About this edition: This book covers basic demographic concepts and then examines the following topics as they relate to population growth-women and families, aging, urbanization, economic development, food and pollution, population policy and applied demography.
9780534264604 | 6th edition (Dorsey Pr, August 1, 1995), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: This text presents the basic demographic concepts and related population growth topics.

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9781428817128 | 8 edition (Academic Internet Pub Inc, December 31, 2006), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again!
9780534627799 | 9 unbnd edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, July 30, 2004), cover price $70.95 | About this edition: This low-cost THOMSON ADVANTAGE BOOKS version of POPULATION introduces you to population issues, concepts and theories.

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Product Description: Thomas Robert Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population, originally published at the end of the 18th Century, echoes eerily in modern problems of economy and population. Malthus's work, which contributed to the now common process of census, makes keen observations on how success for the many may lead to pay cuts for the few...read more
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9781404302266 | Indypublish.Com, February 1, 2002, cover price $23.99
9780521323611 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $214.00 | About this edition: This book provides a student audience with the best scholarly edition of Malthus' Essay on Population.

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9781409990031 | Dodo Pr, November 30, 2009, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus FRS (1766-1834), was a British scholar, influential in political economy and demography.
9780521071345 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 4, 2008), cover price $61.00 | About this edition: Published in two volumes, these books provide a student audience with an excellent scholarly edition of Malthus' Essay on Population.
9781426415074 | Lightning Source Inc, October 30, 2007, cover price $20.75 | About this edition: Short excerpt: The discussion started the general question of the future improvement of society, and the Author at first sat down with an intention of merely stating his thoughts to his friend…
9780486456089 | Dover Pubns, July 30, 2007, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: The first major study of population size and its tremendous importance to the character and quality of society, this classic examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resources.
9781419106446 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2004, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: The principal objects which human punishments have in view are undoubtedly restraint and example; restraint, or removal, of an individual member whose vicious habits are likely to be prejudicial to the society'; and example, which by expressing the sense of the community with regard to a particular crime, and by associating more nearly and visibly crime and punishment, holds out a moral motive to dissuade others from the commission of it.
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Product Description: With contributions by leading demographers, environmentalists, and reproductive health advocates, A Pivotal Moment offers a new perspective on the complex connection between population dynamics and environmental quality. It presents the latest research on the relationship between population growth and climate change, ecosystem health, and other environmental issues...read more
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9781597266611 | Island Pr, October 16, 2009, cover price $60.00 | also contains A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice, and the Environmental Challenge | About this edition: With contributions by leading demographers, environmentalists, and reproductive health advocates, A Pivotal Moment offers a new perspective on the complex connection between population dynamics and environmental quality.

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9781597266628 | Island Pr, October 16, 2009, cover price $40.00 | also contains A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice, and the Environmental Challenge | About this edition: Through a series of essays by leading demographers, environmentalists and reproductive health advocates, A Pivotal Moment offers a new perspective on the complex connection between population dynamics and environmental quality.

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Product Description: Listen to a short interview with Matthew Connelly Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane Fatal Misconception is the disturbing story of our quest to remake humanity by policing national borders and breeding better people...read more
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9780674024236 | Belknap Pr, March 25, 2008, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Listen to a short interview with Matthew Connelly Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane Fatal Misconception is the disturbing story of our quest to remake humanity by policing national borders and breeding better people.

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9780674034600 | Belknap Pr, November 30, 2009, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Listen to a short interview with Matthew Connelly Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane Fatal Misconception is the disturbing story of our quest to remake humanity by policing national borders and breeding better people.

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Product Description: With contributions by leading demographers, environmentalists, and reproductive health advocates, A Pivotal Moment offers a new perspective on the complex connection between population dynamics and environmental quality. It presents the latest research on the relationship between population growth and climate change, ecosystem health, and other environmental issues...read more
By Laurie Mazur (editor)
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9781597266611 | Island Pr, October 16, 2009, cover price $60.00 | also contains A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice, and the Environmental Challenge | About this edition: With contributions by leading demographers, environmentalists, and reproductive health advocates, A Pivotal Moment offers a new perspective on the complex connection between population dynamics and environmental quality.

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9781597266628 | Island Pr, October 16, 2009, cover price $40.00 | also contains A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice, and the Environmental Challenge | About this edition: Through a series of essays by leading demographers, environmentalists and reproductive health advocates, A Pivotal Moment offers a new perspective on the complex connection between population dynamics and environmental quality.

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Amazon.com Review: Experts give varying estimates on the number of people the earth can sustain. Predictions range between 4 and 16 billion, yet with the world's current population at approximately 6 billion, it's seems we can only hope to make a good guess...read more
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9780393038620 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1995, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Examines the problem of the unprecedented rise in the world's population, showing how overpopulation will force future generations to make difficult choices among the competing values of economic development, environmental quality, and procreative freedom

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9780393314953 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1996, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Examines the problem of the unprecedented rise in the world's population, showing how overpopulation will force future generations to make difficult choices among the competing values of economic development, environmental quality, and procreative freedom

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9781439509661 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Amazon.

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Product Description: An Institutional Framework for Policymaking offers a new approach to the study of institutions and adds to the growing body of literature in the field of 'new institutionalism.' Dr. Matt Evans utilizes previous characterizations of institutions to analyze the framework affecting policymaking and the tools used for policy implementation...read more
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9780739115510 | 1 edition (Lexington Books, August 15, 2007), cover price $68.50 | About this edition: An Institutional Framework for Policymaking offers a new approach to the study of institutions and adds to the growing body of literature in the field of "new institutionalism.

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9780739115527, titled "Institutional Framework For Policymaking: Planning and Population Dispersal in Israel" | Reprint edition (Lexington Books, February 15, 2008), cover price $31.50 | About this edition: An Institutional Framework for Policymaking offers a new approach to the study of institutions and adds to the growing body of literature in the field of 'new institutionalism.

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Product Description: 'The main strength of the book is that it is a collection of credible field studies conducted in geographically specific areas (Indian states), thus each chapter has a particular focus beyond which it does not stray' - Omar A. Khan, Contemporary South Asia Bringing together fourteen case studies from action research projects undertaken by voluntary organizations in India, this book analyzes the dynamics of social change, the factors that lead to success and the problems encountered...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780761994053 | Sage Pubns Pvt Ltd, March 14, 2000, cover price $75.95 | About this edition: 'The main strength of the book is that it is a collection of credible field studies conducted in geographically specific areas (Indian states), thus each chapter has a particular focus beyond which it does not stray' - Omar A.

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9780761994060 | Sage Pubns, January 22, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 'The main strength of the book is that it is a collection of credible field studies conducted in geographically specific areas (Indian states), thus each chapter has a particular focus beyond which it does not stray' - Omar A.

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Product Description: Demographics class just got a lot more interesting. POPULATION doesn't just give you the information; it shows you how to use it. From the debate over how to rebuild the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina to what should be done about Social Security and Medicare, POPULATION lets you apply the research yourself...read more
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9780495096375 | 10th edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, July 31, 2007), cover price $206.95 | About this edition: Demographics class just got a lot more interesting.

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Product Description: The Population and Development Report, a series of analytical reports published biennially, aims to enhance knowledge about the vital relationship between population and development issues and to generate awareness in advance of the challenges presented by population dynamics and demographic change...read more
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9789211282986 | United Nations Pubns, July 1, 2006, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The Population and Development Report, a series of analytical reports published biennially, aims to enhance knowledge about the vital relationship between population and development issues and to generate awareness in advance of the challenges presented by population dynamics and demographic change.

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9781856497770 | Zed Books, November 1, 1999, cover price $45.00

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9781856497787 | Zed Books, June 30, 2006, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: Claiming that many citizens of developed nations are failing to reproduce, this informative sociological analysis examines the fertility issues stepping out of the bedroom and taking center stage in the political arena and public eye...read more
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9781741144772 | Allen & Unwin, April 1, 2006, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Claiming that many citizens of developed nations are failing to reproduce, this informative sociological analysis examines the fertility issues stepping out of the bedroom and taking center stage in the political arena and public eye.

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Product Description: The chapters in this text revise versions of papers presented at the 1994 International Symposium on the topic sponsored by the Population Council in Cairo. The first chapters deal with political factors including the legal and religious relations...read more
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9789774243578 | Amer Univ in Cairo Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $29.50 | About this edition: Assesses the interplay of economic, political, cultural, and demographic forces that shape the context of population policy in Middle Eastern and North African countries.

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9789774243684, titled "Family Gender and Population in the Middle East: Policies in Context" | Amer Univ in Cairo Pr, January 14, 2005, cover price $29.50 | About this edition: The chapters in this text revise versions of papers presented at the 1994 International Symposium on the topic sponsored by the Population Council in Cairo.

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A senior follow at the New America Foundation makes the controversial argument that low fertility rates and global aging threaten the global economy and make the industrialized nations of the West vulnerable to fundamentalism. 30,000 first printing.
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9780465050505 | Basic Books, April 13, 2004, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A senior follow at the New America Foundation makes the controversial argument that low fertility rates and global aging threaten the global economy and make the industrialized nations of the West vulnerable to fundamentalism.

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9780465041725 | Basic Books, September 21, 2010, cover price $16.00

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By Paul George Demeny (editor) and Geoffrey McNicoll (editor)
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9780028656786 | Macmillan Library Reference, May 1, 2003, cover price $55.01
9780028656793 | Macmillan Library Reference, May 1, 2003, cover price $55.01
9780028656779 | 2 sub edition (Macmillan Library Reference, May 1, 2003), cover price $404.00

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Product Description: Across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a growing notion of the value of a large populace created a sense of urgency about reproduction; accordingly, a wide array of English writers of the time voiced the need not merely to add more people but also to ensure that England had an abundance of the right kinds of people...read more
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9780816639908 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: Across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a growing notion of the value of a large populace created a sense of urgency about reproduction; accordingly, a wide array of English writers of the time voiced the need not merely to add more people but also to ensure that England had an abundance of the right kinds of people.

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9780816639915 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a growing notion of the value of a large populace created a sense of urgency about reproduction; accordingly, a wide array of English writers of the time voiced the need not merely to add more people but also to ensure that England had an abundance of the right kinds of people.

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Product Description: Human population growth has been a topic of speculation and spirited debate since the English economist Thomas Malthus predicted that population will increase faster than the food supply, with catastrophic results. Today, even as fertility rates decline on a global scale, relentless increases in population and other population-driven factors threaten not only the food supply, but also the stability of entire regions of the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780195154566 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 2003, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Human population growth has been a topic of speculation and spirited debate since the English economist Thomas Malthus predicted that population will increase faster than the food supply, with catastrophic results.

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Maria Sophia Quine demystifies the population policies of fascist regimes by looking at them in the wider context of how societies in general reacted to the profound economic changes brought by industrialization. Population Politics in Twentieth Century Europe: * provides an original, comparative treatment of European population policies * gives the historical background to twentieth-century population policies * considers topics such as racism and sexism in Nazi ideology, Eugenics in England, family allowance schemes in France, and sterilization * synthesizes the latest research in different fields and countries.
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9780415080699 | Routledge, January 1, 1996, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Maria Sophia Quine demystifies the population policies of fascist regimes by looking at them in the wider context of how societies in general reacted to the profound economic changes brought by industrialization.

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9780203410592, titled "Population Politics in Twentieth Century Europe: Fascist Dictatorships and Liberal Democracies" | Routledge, November 1, 2002, cover price $31.95

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Product Description: This book examines the dramatic fall in family size that occurred in Britain between 1860 and 1940. It overturns current thinking by showing how much variety there was in the occupational patterns of falling fertility. There are entirely new and surprising findings: births were widely spaced from early in marriage; and sexual abstinence by married couples was far more important than previously imagined...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521343435 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $168.00 | About this edition: This book examines the dramatic fall in family size that occurred in Britain between 1860 and 1940.

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9780521528689 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This book examines the dramatic fall in family size that occurred in Britain between 1860 and 1940.

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Product Description: This work focuses on two critical global issues - rapid population growth and a human-induced climate change. John Firor and Judith Jacobsen summarize the current status of these two issues, show how they are related to one another, and prescribe steps that governments, economies, societies and individuals can adopt to stabilize both population and climate...read more
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9780300093209 | Yale Univ Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: This work focuses on two critical global issues - rapid population growth and a human-induced climate change.

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Product Description: This book is a detailed examination of the demographic policy of Mussolini's Fascist regime. Based on archival research, it examines both the Italian statistics, and the demographic theory of the time. The author shows how the Fascists used statistics to mold public opinion through propaganda, as well as to form policy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521554527 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $132.00

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9780521894258 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 2002, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This book is a detailed examination of the demographic policy of Mussolini's Fascist regime.

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Product 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...read more
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9780801868108 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, February 5, 2002, cover price $51.00 | About this edition: In the eighteenth century France became convinced it was losing population.

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