SummaryLong analyzed as biopolitics, the regulation of population always entailed geopolitics as well, although tracing the connections and separations of these strands across time, and across political cultures, is not easy. To appreciate the many dimensions of population in world history, a new approach is needed; something like an integrated and global gendered political economy of population. Considered at a global level, the eighteenth and nineteenth-century expansion of Europe was both demographic and geographic. The politics of fertility decline as it played out in international and racial relations has received much historical analysis, and within many different national traditions. The fertility decline has been read as depopulation. Imperial German scholars and statesmen had been deeply interested in population density, overpopulation, before and during the First World War. 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A main reason for this was 18th century agricultural improvements, which all but ended the periodic famines that had kept down European populations. From 1750 to 1850, the population of England alone nearly tripled.
What was the main cause of Europe's population increase between 1850 and 1880?With industrialization, improvements in medical knowledge and public health, together with a more regular food supply, bring about a drastic reduction in the death rate but no corresponding decline in the birth rate. The result is a population explosion, as experienced in 19th-century Europe.
Why did the population increase after 1750?From around 27% over the previous century, it reached 30% in the three decades from 1751 to 1781, 37% in the next three decades to 1811 and peaked at a 55% growth in the generation from 1811 to 1841. This was entirely the result of a high natural growth rate as fertility (the number of births) exceeded mortality.
What caused Europe's population to increase?Q: Why did the population increase in Europe during the Middle Ages? The population grew in medieval Europe largely due to climate change. As things warmed up, farms were able to produce more food, and people were able to circumvent diseases much easier.
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