Ted Mccormick
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ted Mccormick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ted |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccormick |
| SIGNATURE | MCCORMICK T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3658-7697 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Making Empire
Reclaimed Land
Although natural history as a genre had classical, medieval, and Renaissance forms, seventeenth-century natural histories played a distinctive role in relation to projects – especially large-scale projects of expropriation, economic exploitation, planned mobility, and settlement. Sites targeted for such projects must be shown to be thoroughly known for the projects proposed to seem feasible or profitable and the risks involved calculable and wort…
Projects in the History of Knowledge
The Panama Canal, the silkworm, a sugar plantation, the South Sea Bubble, an industrial workschool: they may seem to have little in common, but these, and other disparate interventions from around the globe, share a common epistemology relating knowledge and power in a specific dynamic: the project. A category new to the early modern period that still structures the world around us, the project offers tools for the critical and historical analysi…
Human empire
Introduction: Transformations in demographic thought -- Mobility and mutability in the early Tudor body politic -- Marginality, incivility and degeneration in Elizabethan England and Ireland -- Beyond the body politic : territory, population and colonial projecting -- Transmutation, quantification and the creation of political arithmetic -- Improving populations in the eighteenth century -- Conclusion: Malthus, demographic governance and the limi…
Ireland, Slavery and the Caribbean
Seiichiro Ito, English Economic Thought in the Seventeenth Century
Seventeenth-century Anglo-Dutch relations have long been a major theme in political, cultural and intellectual historiography, and the power of the Dutch example figures incidentally but inescapably in many accounts of early English economic thought. In structuring an account of the emergence of a “properly English economic discourse” (186) around English writers’ engagement with the economic activities and policies of the United Provinces, then,…
The Economic Thought of William Petty
Book Review| February 01 2020 The Economic Thought of William Petty: Exploring the Colonialist Roots of Economics, by Hugh Goodacre The Economic Thought of William Petty: Exploring the Colonialist Roots of Economics. By Goodacre, Hugh. New York: Routledge, 2018. xiv; 247pp. $119.00. Ted McCormick Ted McCormick Concordia University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (1): 197–199. https…
Food, Population, and Empire in the Hartlib Circle, 1639-1660
The idea of population control is often associated with Malthusian views of scarcity and their twentieth-century political and technological legacies. Though sixteenth- and seventeenth-century political thinkers and scientific projectors often described human multiplication in religious—especially biblical and providentialist—terms, they similarly understood population to be constrained by the capacity of limited resources to feed growing numbers…
New Perspectives on Malthus
Towards a History of Projects
This introduction argues for the value of projecting as a category of analysis, while exploring the contexts for its emergence and spread as a genre of intellectual and practical activity in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. The emergence of the morally ambivalent figure of the “projector” in Elizabethan and Stuart England – initially in connection with confessional strife and attacks on corruption, and subsequently in relatio…
Moral geometry in Restoration Ireland
Despite the importance of the new science in the colonisation of Stuart Ireland, and the many Irish links to major figures in the Scientific Revolution, these connections remain relatively little studied outside of major episodes such as the Down Survey. This article examines a much smaller project, the ‘Computatio Universalis’ (1684) of Church of Ireland clergyman (later bishop of Down and Connor) Samuel Foley (1655–1695). Submitted to the Dubli…
Statistics in the Hands of an Angry God? John Graunt's Observations in Cotton Mather's New England
Statistics in the Hands of an Angry God?John Graunt’s Observations in Cotton Mather’s New England Ted McCormick (bio) ON August 21, 1708, Ezekiel Cheever, headmaster for thirty-eight years of the Free School in Boston, died at the age of ninety-four. Cotton Mather delivered the funeral sermon. His theme was the shortness of life. In a striking passage, he addressed in the language of numbers the crop of young scholars Cheever had left behind. “Ch…
Political Arithmetic's 18th Century Histories
Seventeenth‐and 18th‐century political arithmetic – the gathering, interpretation, and dissemination of quantitative demographic information for various political, economic, scientific, and scholarly purposes – has attracted increasing scholarly attention since the mid‐1990s. Long understood as an early or proto‐social scientific discipline, anticipatory of modern economics and statistical demography, political arithmetic has emerged from recent …
Political Arithmetic and Sacred History
Current approaches to the history of early modern population thought focus on the state and secular governance, while standard treatments of Restoration and Augustan “political arithmetic” emphasize its economic or social-scientific content. This article recovers nonsecular uses of demographic quantification, excavating the use of political arithmetic in religious polemic between ca. 1660 and ca. 1750. As a form of empirical natural philosophy, p…
Governing Model Populations
INTRODUCTIONThe proliferation of scientific questionnaires in the later seventeenth century has long been recognized as an important clue to links between European expansion and transformations in the production of scientific knowledge. As travel - for commercial, political, religious or other purposes - became increasingly common within and beyond Europe, queries for travellers bore witness to the shifting methods and aspirations of natural hist…
John Cunningham. Conquest and Land in Ireland
The “transplantation to Connacht” is at once one of the most notorious and least understood episodes of seventeenth-century Irish history. A policy of forced removal of Irish Catholics tainted by rebellion to the area west of the River Shannon, the transplantation was implemented soon after Oliver Cromwell's conquest of 1649–1652. In that postwar context, it created space for a new land settlement predicated upon the massive expropriation of Cath…
Transmutation, Inclusion, and Exclusion
Political arithmetic, generally understood as an early form of political economy, was originally designed by Sir William Petty in the 1670s less as a method of quantitative analysis than as a program of government through the direct manipulation of demographic processes. In the context of the English colonization of Ireland, its goal was "the transmutation of Irish into English"; under the Catholic James II it briefly became a program for the cat…
Alchemy in the political arithmetic of Sir William Petty (1623–1687)
Soldiers and Strangers
Political Arithmetic and Sacred History
Current approaches to the history of early modern population thought focus on the state and secular governance, while standard treatments of Restoration and Augustan “political arithmetic” emphasize its economic or social-scientific content. This article recovers nonsecular uses of demographic quantification, excavating the use of political arithmetic in religious polemic between ca. 1660 and ca. 1750. As a form of empirical natural philosophy, p…
Transmutation, Inclusion, and Exclusion
Political arithmetic, generally understood as an early form of political economy, was originally designed by Sir William Petty in the 1670s less as a method of quantitative analysis than as a program of government through the direct manipulation of demographic processes. In the context of the English colonization of Ireland, its goal was "the transmutation of Irish into English"; under the Catholic James II it briefly became a program for the cat…
Towards a History of Projects
This introduction argues for the value of projecting as a category of analysis, while exploring the contexts for its emergence and spread as a genre of intellectual and practical activity in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. The emergence of the morally ambivalent figure of the “projector” in Elizabethan and Stuart England – initially in connection with confessional strife and attacks on corruption, and subsequently in relatio…
Political Arithmetic's 18th Century Histories
Seventeenth‐and 18th‐century political arithmetic – the gathering, interpretation, and dissemination of quantitative demographic information for various political, economic, scientific, and scholarly purposes – has attracted increasing scholarly attention since the mid‐1990s. Long understood as an early or proto‐social scientific discipline, anticipatory of modern economics and statistical demography, political arithmetic has emerged from recent …
Governing Model Populations
INTRODUCTIONThe proliferation of scientific questionnaires in the later seventeenth century has long been recognized as an important clue to links between European expansion and transformations in the production of scientific knowledge. As travel - for commercial, political, religious or other purposes - became increasingly common within and beyond Europe, queries for travellers bore witness to the shifting methods and aspirations of natural hist…
Alchemy in the political arithmetic of Sir William Petty (1623–1687)
Soldiers and Strangers
Transmutation, Inclusion, and Exclusion
Political arithmetic, generally understood as an early form of political economy, was originally designed by Sir William Petty in the 1670s less as a method of quantitative analysis than as a program of government through the direct manipulation of demographic processes. In the context of the English colonization of Ireland, its goal was "the transmutation of Irish into English"; under the Catholic James II it briefly became a program for the cat…
John Cunningham. Conquest and Land in Ireland
The “transplantation to Connacht” is at once one of the most notorious and least understood episodes of seventeenth-century Irish history. A policy of forced removal of Irish Catholics tainted by rebellion to the area west of the River Shannon, the transplantation was implemented soon after Oliver Cromwell's conquest of 1649–1652. In that postwar context, it created space for a new land settlement predicated upon the massive expropriation of Cath…
Political Arithmetic and Sacred History
Current approaches to the history of early modern population thought focus on the state and secular governance, while standard treatments of Restoration and Augustan “political arithmetic” emphasize its economic or social-scientific content. This article recovers nonsecular uses of demographic quantification, excavating the use of political arithmetic in religious polemic between ca. 1660 and ca. 1750. As a form of empirical natural philosophy, p…
Governing Model Populations
INTRODUCTIONThe proliferation of scientific questionnaires in the later seventeenth century has long been recognized as an important clue to links between European expansion and transformations in the production of scientific knowledge. As travel - for commercial, political, religious or other purposes - became increasingly common within and beyond Europe, queries for travellers bore witness to the shifting methods and aspirations of natural hist…
Political Arithmetic's 18th Century Histories
Seventeenth‐and 18th‐century political arithmetic – the gathering, interpretation, and dissemination of quantitative demographic information for various political, economic, scientific, and scholarly purposes – has attracted increasing scholarly attention since the mid‐1990s. Long understood as an early or proto‐social scientific discipline, anticipatory of modern economics and statistical demography, political arithmetic has emerged from recent …
Statistics in the Hands of an Angry God? John Graunt's Observations in Cotton Mather's New England
Statistics in the Hands of an Angry God?John Graunt’s Observations in Cotton Mather’s New England Ted McCormick (bio) ON August 21, 1708, Ezekiel Cheever, headmaster for thirty-eight years of the Free School in Boston, died at the age of ninety-four. Cotton Mather delivered the funeral sermon. His theme was the shortness of life. In a striking passage, he addressed in the language of numbers the crop of young scholars Cheever had left behind. “Ch…
New Perspectives on Malthus
Towards a History of Projects
This introduction argues for the value of projecting as a category of analysis, while exploring the contexts for its emergence and spread as a genre of intellectual and practical activity in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. The emergence of the morally ambivalent figure of the “projector” in Elizabethan and Stuart England – initially in connection with confessional strife and attacks on corruption, and subsequently in relatio…
Moral geometry in Restoration Ireland
Despite the importance of the new science in the colonisation of Stuart Ireland, and the many Irish links to major figures in the Scientific Revolution, these connections remain relatively little studied outside of major episodes such as the Down Survey. This article examines a much smaller project, the ‘Computatio Universalis’ (1684) of Church of Ireland clergyman (later bishop of Down and Connor) Samuel Foley (1655–1695). Submitted to the Dubli…
The Economic Thought of William Petty
Book Review| February 01 2020 The Economic Thought of William Petty: Exploring the Colonialist Roots of Economics, by Hugh Goodacre The Economic Thought of William Petty: Exploring the Colonialist Roots of Economics. By Goodacre, Hugh. New York: Routledge, 2018. xiv; 247pp. $119.00. Ted McCormick Ted McCormick Concordia University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (1): 197–199. https…
Food, Population, and Empire in the Hartlib Circle, 1639-1660
The idea of population control is often associated with Malthusian views of scarcity and their twentieth-century political and technological legacies. Though sixteenth- and seventeenth-century political thinkers and scientific projectors often described human multiplication in religious—especially biblical and providentialist—terms, they similarly understood population to be constrained by the capacity of limited resources to feed growing numbers…
Seiichiro Ito, English Economic Thought in the Seventeenth Century
Seventeenth-century Anglo-Dutch relations have long been a major theme in political, cultural and intellectual historiography, and the power of the Dutch example figures incidentally but inescapably in many accounts of early English economic thought. In structuring an account of the emergence of a “properly English economic discourse” (186) around English writers’ engagement with the economic activities and policies of the United Provinces, then,…
Human empire
Introduction: Transformations in demographic thought -- Mobility and mutability in the early Tudor body politic -- Marginality, incivility and degeneration in Elizabethan England and Ireland -- Beyond the body politic : territory, population and colonial projecting -- Transmutation, quantification and the creation of political arithmetic -- Improving populations in the eighteenth century -- Conclusion: Malthus, demographic governance and the limi…
Ireland, Slavery and the Caribbean
Reclaimed Land
Although natural history as a genre had classical, medieval, and Renaissance forms, seventeenth-century natural histories played a distinctive role in relation to projects – especially large-scale projects of expropriation, economic exploitation, planned mobility, and settlement. Sites targeted for such projects must be shown to be thoroughly known for the projects proposed to seem feasible or profitable and the risks involved calculable and wort…
Projects in the History of Knowledge
The Panama Canal, the silkworm, a sugar plantation, the South Sea Bubble, an industrial workschool: they may seem to have little in common, but these, and other disparate interventions from around the globe, share a common epistemology relating knowledge and power in a specific dynamic: the project. A category new to the early modern period that still structures the world around us, the project offers tools for the critical and historical analysi…
Making Empire
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