title: Escaping traps: Malthusian and intellectual.
abstract: A review of Alan Macfarlane's The savage wars of peace: England, Japan and the Malthusian trap (1997).
authors: P C
authors: PC
authors: Brown
mesh_terms: D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000266:history; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D007564:Japan; D009026:Mortality / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000639:trends; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D006113:United Kingdom; D014857:Warfare