Travels to discover the source of the Nile : in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 / by James Bruce of Kinnaird.

Bruce, James E.

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“…Aside from that, it is curious that Malthus refers to Bruce to underscore the moral corruption characterized by promiscuous intercourse because Bruce presents several counter examples, e.g.,:

“I have said the Shangalla 9 have each several wives. This, however, is not owing to any inordinate propensity of the men to this gratification, but to a much nobler cause, which should make European writers, who object this to them ashamed at the injustice they do the savage, who all his life, quite the reverse of what is supposed, shews an example of the continence and chastity, which the purest and most refined European, with all the advantages of education, cannot pretend to imitate.” (Bruce, 1790: vol. ii, 554)

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“…This, however, is not owing to any inordinate propensity of the men to this gratification, but to a much nobler cause, which should make European writers, who object this to them ashamed at the injustice they do the savage, who all his life, quite the reverse of what is supposed, shews an example of the continence and chastity, which the purest and most refined European, with all the advantages of education, cannot pretend to imitate.” (Bruce, 1790: vol. ii, 554)…”

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“…Or, in other words, which shall have most children, one man and one woman, or one man and four women? The question, I think, needs no discussion.” (Bruce, 1790: vol. i, 287)…”

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“…Women sometimes in Europe bear children at 50. The scale of years of child-bearing between the savage and the European is, therefore, as is 12 to 38.” (Bruce, 1790: vol. ii, 559)…”

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Malthus, the 18th Century European explorers andthe principle of population in Africa

Reniers

2011

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In the second edition of his Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus included twelve chapters that offer a remarkable description of population dynamics from all corners of the world. His discussion of (sub-Saharan) Africa was almost entirely based on the travel accounts of James Bruce and Mungo Park, two late eighteenth century British explorers. In this essay, I introduce these sources and discuss the insights that Malthus did, or perhaps should have, derived from both.

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“…Aside from that, it is curious that Malthus refers to Bruce to underscore the moral corruption characterized by promiscuous intercourse because Bruce presents several counter examples, e.g.,:

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Section: Beyond Positive Checksmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Or, in other words, which shall have most children, one man and one woman, or one man and four women? The question, I think, needs no discussion.” (Bruce, 1790: vol. i, 287)…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Women sometimes in Europe bear children at 50. The scale of years of child-bearing between the savage and the European is, therefore, as is 12 to 38.” (Bruce, 1790: vol. ii, 559)…”

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Malthus, the 18th Century European explorers andthe principle of population in Africa

Reniers

2011

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“…96 Qina produced "common cotton cloth for regular use" out of local cotton and fiber brought in from the delta and from Syria. 108 The textile interest in Qina province was a heterogeneous, if tightly interdependent, alliance indeed. 97 Qus is mentioned as a spinning and weaving center.…”

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Rural Revolt and Provincial Society in Egypt, 1820–1824

Lawson

1981

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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Given Gabriel Baer's 1962 study “Submissiveness and Revolt of the Fellah,” there should be no more talk of the political passivity of Egyptian peasants and their rural neighbors during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Baer demonstrates that rural uprisings were frequent and widespread during the years just before and on into the regime of Muhammad Ali Pasha. Furthermore, he describes three series of provincial rebellions which were significantly larger and better organized than any that preceded them. These three series of rebellions, which are associated with the village of as-Salimiyyah between Qina and Farshut in 1820–1821, with that of al-Ba'irat opposite Luqsur in 1822–1823, and with virtually the whole of Qina province in 1824, illustrate both that a very large number of people in this region would actively support an antigovernment leader during the 1820s and that these people were willing and able to establish effective and legitimate governmental institutions of their own on a local level.

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The Tsetse Fly I: Africa’s Bane and Benefice

Spinage

2011

Springer Geography

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Travels to discover the source of the Nile : in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 / by James Bruce of Kinnaird.

Cited by 24 publications

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Malthus, the 18th Century European explorers andthe principle of population in Africa

Malthus, the 18th Century European explorers andthe principle of population in Africa

Rural Revolt and Provincial Society in Egypt, 1820–1824

The Tsetse Fly I: Africa’s Bane and Benefice

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