Fertile Crescent?
Patrick J. Ryan September 26, 2011 - 11:51am
A Convergence of Civilizations
The Transformation of Muslim Societies around the World
Youssef Courbage and Emmanuel Todd
Translated by George Holoch
Columbia University Press, $35, 152 pp.
During the years I taught at the University of Ghana, the United Nations sponsored a Regional Institute for Population Studies there, infelicitously known by the acronym RIPS. Occasionally I picked up literature produced by the institute on ethical issues surrounding population control; in the process I learned some demographic jargon, such as the division of cultures into natalist (or pronatalist) and antinatalist, those that encourage childbearing and those that do not. One particularly...
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