Population And History

Author : Massimo Livi-Bacci
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119029274

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A Concise History of World Population by Massimo Livi-Bacci Pdf

The latest edition of this classic text has been updated to reflect current trends and implications for future demographic developments. The areas of Africa, international migration and population and environment have been strengthened and statistical information has been updated throughout. A new edition of this classic history of demography text, which has been updated to strengthen the major subject areas of Africa, international migration and population and the environment Includes the latest statistical information, including the 2015 UN population projections revision and developments in China's population policy Information is presented in a clear and simple form, with academic material presented accessibly for the undergraduate audience whilst still maintaining the interest of higher level students and scholars The text covers issues that are crucial to the future of every species by encouraging humanity's search for ways to prevent future demographic catastrophes brought about by environmental or human agency Analyses the changing patterns of world population growth, including the effects of migration, war, disease, technology and culture

Author : Karl Ittmann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520289543

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Problem of Great Importance by Karl Ittmann Pdf

This volume examines the significant role population science played in British colonial policy in the twentieth century as the imperial state attempted to control colonial populations using new agricultural and public health policies, private family planning initiatives, and by imposing limits over migration and settlement. A Problem of Great Importance traces British imperial efforts to engage metropolitan activists who could improve its knowledge of colonial demography and design programs to influence colonial population trends. While imperial population control failed to achieve its goals, British institutions and experts would be central to the development of postcolonial population programs. Researchers, scholars, and historians of British history will gain greater perspective into the effects of demography on imperial governance and colonial and postcolonial British views of their place in the world.

Author : Michael R. Haines,Richard H. Steckel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0521496667

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A Population History of North America by Michael R. Haines,Richard H. Steckel Pdf

Professors Haines and Steckel bring together leading scholars to present an expansive population history of North America from pre-Columbian times to the present. Covering the populations of Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean, including two essays on the Amerindian population, this volume takes advantage of considerable recent progress in demographic history to offer timely, knowlegeable information in a non-technical format. A statistical appendix summarizes basic demographic measures over time for the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Author : E. A. Wrigley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521590159

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English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580-1837 by E. A. Wrigley Pdf

This book uses data from 26 Anglican to provide information about fertility, morality and nuptiality in the past.

Author : David Victor Glass,David Edward Charles Eversley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Demography
ISBN : UCAL:B4382703

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Population in History by David Victor Glass,David Edward Charles Eversley Pdf

Compilation of essays in historical demography, with particular reference to the UK, the USA and Europe in the period prior to 1860 - includes material on population trends and measurement, marriage patterns, birth rate, fertility, mortality, population growth, etc. References.

Author : Alison Bashford
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231147668

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Global Population by Alison Bashford Pdf

Concern about the size of the world’s population did not begin with the Baby Boomers. Overpopulation as a conceptual problem originated after World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching ecological, agricultural, economic, and geopolitical consequences. This study traces the idea of a world population problem as it developed from the 1920s through the 1950s, long before the late-1960s notion of a postwar “population bomb.” Drawing on international conference transcripts, the volume reconstructs the twentieth-century discourse on population as an international issue concerned with migration, colonial expansion, sovereignty, and globalization. It connects the genealogy of population discourse to the rise of economically and demographically defined global regions, the characterization of “civilizations” with different standards of living, global attitudes toward “development,” and first- and third-world designations.

Author : David Victor Glass,D. E. C. Eversley
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780202368047

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Population in History by David Victor Glass,D. E. C. Eversley Pdf

This large-scale comparative endeavor, complete in two volumes, reflects increasing concern with the population factor in economic and social change worldwide. Demographers, on their side, have been focusing on history. In response to this, Population in History represents the work of two practitioners that have begun to work together, using their combined approaches in an attempt to assess and account for population growth experienced by the West since the seventeenth century. There is a long record of interest in the history of population. But the interest now displayed is likely to be both more persistent and far more fruitful in its consequences. New studies have been initiated in many countries. And because the studies are more informed and systematic than many of those of earlier periods, they are already provoking the further spread of research. A much more positive part is now also being played by national and international associations of historians and demographers. It is not unlikely that, within the next fifteen or twenty years, the main outlines of population change in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries will be firmly established for much of Europe. Previous research has tended to appear in specialist journals and academic publications. This volume is intended to provide a more easily accessible publication. It has been thought appropriate to include some earlier work, both because of its intrinsic interest and because it provided the background and part of the stimulus to the later research. Of the twenty-seven contributions to this outstanding volume, seven are unabridged reprints of earlier work; the remaining contributions are either entirely new or represent substantial revisions of work published elsewhere. D. V. Glass was professor of sociology at the University of London. At the time of his death he was a fellow of the Royal Society and a fellow of the British Academy as well as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. Most of his later work and research was focused on demography. D. E. C. Eversley was reader in social history at the University of Birmingham. Some of the books he co-authored include Introduction to English Demography from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century and Social Theories of Fertility and The Malthusian Debate.

Author : Edward Anthony Wrigley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Demography
ISBN : 0303175788

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Population and History by Edward Anthony Wrigley Pdf

Author : Johan P. Mackenbach
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004429130

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A History of Population Health by Johan P. Mackenbach Pdf

Winner of the 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award In A History of Population Health Johan P. Mackenbach offers a broad-sweeping study of the spectacular changes in people’s health in Europe since the early 18th century. Most of the 40 specific diseases covered in this book show a fascinating pattern of ‘rise-and-fall’, with large differences in timing between countries. Using a unique collection of historical data and bringing together insights from demography, economics, sociology, political science, medicine, epidemiology and general history, it shows that these changes and variations did not occur spontaneously, but were mostly man-made. Throughout European history, changes in health and longevity were therefore closely related to economic, social, and political conditions, with public health and medical care both making important contributions to population health improvement. Readers who would like to have a closer look at the quantitative data used in the trend graphs included in the book can find these it here.

Author : Derek S. Hoff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226347653

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The State and the Stork by Derek S. Hoff Pdf

“A powerful model of how to understand the complex array of issues that will shape the political economy of population in the future.”—American Historical Review From the founders’ fears that crowded cities would produce corruption, luxury, and vice to the zero population growth movement of the late 1960s to today’s widespread fears of an aging crisis as the Baby Boomers retire, the American population debate has always concerned much more than racial composition or resource exhaustion, the aspects of the debate usually emphasized by historians. In The State and the Stork, Derek Hoff draws on his extraordinary knowledge of the intersections between population and economic debates throughout American history to explain the many surprising ways that population anxieties have provoked unexpected policies and political developments—including the recent conservative revival. At once a fascinating history and a revelatory look at the deep origins of a crucial national conversation, The State and the Stork could not be timelier. “Hoff has done a real service by bringing to the foreground the economic dimension of U.S. debates over population size and growth, a topic that has been relegated to the shadows for too long.”—Population and Development Review “After decades of failed efforts by the scientific community to alert the public to the environmental dangers of population growth and overpopulation, a first-rate historian has finally detailed both the arguments and their policy implications . . . Everyone interested in population should read The State and the Stork. This is an incredibly timely book.”—Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb

Author : Nicolas Bacaër
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780857291158

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A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics by Nicolas Bacaër Pdf

As Eugene Wigner stressed, mathematics has proven unreasonably effective in the physical sciences and their technological applications. The role of mathematics in the biological, medical and social sciences has been much more modest but has recently grown thanks to the simulation capacity offered by modern computers. This book traces the history of population dynamics---a theoretical subject closely connected to genetics, ecology, epidemiology and demography---where mathematics has brought significant insights. It presents an overview of the genesis of several important themes: exponential growth, from Euler and Malthus to the Chinese one-child policy; the development of stochastic models, from Mendel's laws and the question of extinction of family names to percolation theory for the spread of epidemics, and chaotic populations, where determinism and randomness intertwine. The reader of this book will see, from a different perspective, the problems that scientists face when governments ask for reliable predictions to help control epidemics (AIDS, SARS, swine flu), manage renewable resources (fishing quotas, spread of genetically modified organisms) or anticipate demographic evolutions such as aging.

Author : John Belshaw
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774858694

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Becoming British Columbia by John Belshaw Pdf

Becoming British Columbia is the first comprehensive, demographic history of British Columbia. Investigating critical moments in the demographic record and linking demographic patterns to larger social and political questions, it shows how biology, politics, and history conspired with sex, death, and migration to create a particular kind of society. John Belshaw overturns the widespread tendency to associate population growth with progress. He reveals that the province has a long tradition of thinking and acting vigorously in ways meant to control and shape biological communities of humans, and suggests that imperialism, race, class, and gender have historically situated population issues at the centre of public consciousness in British Columbia.

Author : D.E.C. Eversley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351497862

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Population in History by D.E.C. Eversley Pdf

This large-scale comparative endeavor, complete in two volumes, reflects increasing concern with the population factor in economic and social change worldwide. Demographers, on their side, have been focusing on history. In response to this, Population in History represents the work of two practitioners that have begun to work together, using their combined approaches in an attempt to assess and account for population growth experienced by the West since the seventeenth century. There is a long record of interest in the history of population. But the interest now displayed is likely to be both more persistent and far more fruitful in its consequences. New studies have been initiated in many countries. And because the studies are more informed and systematic than many of those of earlier periods, they are already provoking the further spread of research. A much more positive part is now also being played by national and international associations of historians and demographers. It is not unlikely that, within the next fifteen or twenty years, the main outlines of population change in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries will be firmly established for much of Europe. Previous research has tended to appear in specialist journals and academic publications. This volume is intended to provide a more easily accessible publication. It has been thought appropriate to include some earlier work, both because of its intrinsic interest and because it provided the background and part of the stimulus to the later research. Of the twenty-seven contributions to this outstanding volume, seven are unabridged reprints of earlier work; the remaining contributions are either entirely new or represent substantial revisions of work published elsewhere.

Author : Sherburne Friend Cook,Woodrow Borah
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520035607

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Essays in Population History by Sherburne Friend Cook,Woodrow Borah Pdf

Author : Daniel F. Doeppers,Peter Xenos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Church records and registers
ISBN : UOM:39015041713564

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Population and History by Daniel F. Doeppers,Peter Xenos Pdf