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Shelley's description of the East in Alastor, where he discursively depopulates and reduces to ruins the entirety of Eastern territories in order to enable a reframing of the East as pre-modern space situation within

Notes on 'The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece' 2006

This epidemic depopulates one-half of the inhabited world: kings, pontiffs, women, the young and the aged, all yield to the influence of the holy madness which, for a series of two hundred years, instigated the slaughter of innumerable nations at the tomb of a god of peace.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

In many patents there is double the quantity of land expressed in the patent, whereby some hundred thousand acres of land are taken up but not planted, which drives away the inhabitants and servants brought up only to planting to seek their fortunes in Carolina and other places, which depopulates the country and prevents the making of many thousand hogsheads of tobacco, to the great diminution of the revenue.

Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699 Walter Stitt Robinson

Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui depopulates two leagues of country near Cuzco

History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

Capital depopulates the country, exploits the colonies and the countries where industries are but little developed, dooms the immense majority of workmen to remain without technical education, to remain mediocre even in their own trade.

The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin

It generally demoralizes and always impoverishes the Kanaka, deprives him of his citizenship, and depopulates the islands fitted to his home.

Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872

It generally demoralizes and always impoverishes the Kanaka, deprives him of his citizenship, and depopulates the islands fitted to his home.

Following the Equator — Part 1 Mark Twain 1872

Hence, "the horror of the taille depopulates the rural districts, concentrating in the towns all the talents and all the capital [5254]."

The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860

It ruins cities, depopulates fields, condemns men to idleness and want, and the only remedy it knows for the evils which it brings upon man is to shorten the miseries of its victims by giving pestilence and famine the most ample commission to destroy their lives.

Hannibal Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841

The same system that depopulates them tends to depopulate the agricultural counties of

The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished 1836