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The Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan and the Malthusian Trap (Paperback)

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Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; New edition edition (19 Nov 2002)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1403904324
ISBN-13: 978-1403904324
Product Dimensions: 23.7 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm
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"It gave me great pleasure, not least because it is so elegantly written; and above all it did what all splendid books should do, it whetted my curiosity."--Roy Porter
"Rewarding and innovative."--"The Times Higher Education Supplement"
"The crescendo of a highly successful writing career...a very remarkable book by a very remarkable man."--Peter Laslett, "The American Historical Review"

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This book aims to solve the problem of how parts of mankind escaped from an apparently inevitable trap of war, famine and disease in the last three hundred years. Through a comparative analysis of English and Japanese history it explores such matters as the destruction of war, decline of famine, importance of certain drinks (especially tea), the use of human excrement and the effects of housing, clothing and bathing on human health. It also shows how the English and Japanese controlled fertility through marriage and sexual patterns, biological and contraceptive factors, abortion and infanticide.

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