With the first published version of Malthus's Essay (1798) are selections from the expanded version (1803), which he considered definitive, as well as his Appendix (1806). Accompanying the text is an introduction and explanatory annotations by Joyce E. Chaplin and a rich selection of supporting materials. A chronology and a bibliography are also included.

About the Author
Joyce E. Chaplin is James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University. She has taught at five different universities on two continents and an island and in a maritime studies program in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. She is the author of An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 (1993), Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 (2001), The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius (2006), and Benjamin Franklin's Political Arithmetic: A Materialist View of Humanity (2009).


Book Information
ISBN 9781324000556
Author Thomas Robert Malthus
Format Paperback
Page Count 344
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 327g
Dimensions(mm) 213mm * 132mm * 20mm