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Jiang argues that nationalist states pursued population growth because wars fought by peoples required ever more people willing to fight and die.
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Population Growth
Jiang argues that nationalist states pursued population growth because wars fought by peoples required ever more people willing to fight and die.
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The Rousseau passage treats population growth as the surest sign that a political association preserves and prospers its members.
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Jiang says liberty and population growth together explain the French Empire's power and the broader power of the nation-state.
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Jiang says medicine and sanitation developed because the nation-state willed science and technology toward growing populations needed for war.
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War gives meaning, purpose, patriotic energy, and future hope because death opens positions and creates social mobility.
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The old-world/new-world collision revolutionized European agriculture because corn, potatoes, peanuts, squash, and tomatoes created a more nutritious food base and helped produce a European population explosion.
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"...much as possible. And this is what led to this massive population growth. But with more population, what was happening was that these wars..."
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"...surest sign of their preservation and prosperity? Their number and their population growth? That's the sign you're looking for. Other things being equal. The..."
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"...idea is a good government, a good society should focus on population growth. On having as many people as possible. Okay. Because that's the..."
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"...calamity, even though tens of millions have died, look at the population growth. It didn't... It never stopped, okay? So for most of the..."
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"the recognition that to fight wars, you need more people who want to kill themselves for the nation. And to get them to do..."
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"...European nations, okay? But what's important is, what's really driving the population growth is war and the necessity for having a large population. So..."
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"I know this is paradoxical, okay? So let me explain. With war, a lot of people die. With death comes opportunities that didn't exist..."
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"Okay? Eventually, the British and the French will get involved as well. But because South America and Central America were already taken by the..."
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"Okay? It's a very long process. And corn allowed for the man civilization to flourish. So corn is an extremely important nutrient that's easy..."
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"...that you notice about this world is the sheer amount of population growth, where after World War II, because of Pax Americana. You see..."
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"...the potato, corn, and tomato back into Europe which allows for population growth. Okay? Okay. So, in other words, history is a very complicated..."
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"...surest sign of their preservation and prosperity? Their number and their population growth. That's the sign you're looking for. Other things being equal, the..."
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
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Disease, steel, horses, and divide-and-conquer matter.
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