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Cover -- Peopling the World -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Race to Fill the Earth: Mobility and Fecundity in Paradise Lost -- Chapter 2. The Afterlives of Political Arithmetic in Defoe and Swift -- Chapter 3. The Veteran's Tale: War, Mobile Populations, and National Identity -- Chapter 4. Remembering the Population: Goldsmith and Migration -- Chapter 5. The Emptiness at The Heart of Midlothian: Nation, Narration, and Population -- Chapter 6. "Islanded in the World": Cultural Memory and Human Mobility in The Last Man -- Chapter 7. Prospects of the Future: Malthus, Shelley, and Freedom of Movement -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Reading texts by Goldsmith, Malthus, Milton, Scott, Mary Shelley, Swift, and others, in the context of debates about scientific innovation, emigration, cultural memory, and colonial settlement, Charlotte Sussman traces a shift in thinking about population and mobility in Britain over the course of the long eighteenth century.