Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–1800

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Notes

1 Charles F. Bahmueller, The National Charity Company: Jeremy Bentham’s Silent Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981), 1.

2 John Locke, ‘An Essay on the Poor Law’, in Political Essays, ed. Mark Goldie (Cambridge and New York: CUP, 1997), 182–98.

3 David Hitchcock, Vagrancy in English Culture and Society, 1650-1750 (London: Bloomsbury, 2016), 32–3.

4 Hakluyt, Discourse, p. 36.

5 E.A. Wrigley and Richard Smith, ‘Malthus and the Poor Law’, The Historical Journal, 63, no. 1, ‘Malthusian Moments’ (February 2020): 33–62.

6 Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798 (Bettany edition 1890), 531.

7 Jeremy Bentham, ‘Short Views of the Economy for the Use of the French Nation’ (1789), No. 29.

8 Jeremy Bentham, Emancipate Your Colonies! Addressed to the National Convention of France A° 1793, Shewing the Uselessness and Mischievousness of Distant Dependencies to a European State (London: printed for Robert Heward, 1830), Nos. 15, 20.