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How different land tenure systems may have very different outcomes for human beings and the other creatures we share the planet with. How one system can launch us into industrial capitalism and the insatiable demands of ever faster growth, dooming us to overpopulation and poverty, whereas the other system can promote steady-state economies, equity and equality. One chapter comprehensively reviews theories of human population dynamics. Two chapters look at impact on fertility opportunities of the Westermarck Effect and incest avoidance in non-human species. A final chapter compares these with kinship restrictions and non-sale of land in Pacific Islander and other traditional social systems. 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Using comparative methods, the author shows that, although many democratic revolutions were mooted and attempted there, the ordinary British, Irish, and French-Canadians could not maintain organised and effective revolutionary processes or control their family sizes. Their repeatedly fractured populations were easily undermined internally by government spies, whilst the French resisted concerted long-term external military opposition and the temporary reinstallation of monarchies.The book reviews biological, social, and political theory on family size, structure, and transmission of territory, and gives a detailed demographic and revolutionary history of France, Britain, Ireland and French Canada, including a comparative history of corresponding societies and Freemasonry in these countries. The post-Revolutionary French population provides a major example of a population which reduced its fertility prior to industrialisation, despite increasing life expectancies and marriage rates. 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