Introduction: Life and earth
Confined in room : a spatial history of malthusianism
War and peace : population, territory, and living space
Density : universes with definite limits
Migration : world population and the global color line
Waste lands : sovereignty and the anticolonial history of world population
Life on earth : ecology and the cosmo-politics of population
Soil and food : agriculture and the fertility of the earth
Sex : the geopolitics of birth control
The species : human difference and global eugenics
Food and freedom : a new world of plenty?
Life and death : the biopolitical solution to a geopolitical problem
Universal rights? Population control and the powers of reproductive freedom
Conclusion: Population in the space age.