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“... and nomads and semi-pastoral peasants were forcibly domesticated and settled. According to Deborah Valenze, this too can be understood as a legacy of Malthus. Land accounted for one half of the principle of population, but Malthus had very little to say about it, beyond its finitude. Instead, he assumed that subsistence was best secured through ...”

“... were among the major research interests of a generation of social and women’s historians – Deborah Valenze, Barbara Taylor, Sonya Rose, Anna Clark, Jane Humphries, Ellen Ross, Melanie Tebbutt, Hilary Land, Jane Lewis, Wally Seccombe, and many others. Griffin credits this generation of historians with ‘establishing domestic life as a subject to ...”