The Children of Eve

Louis P. Cain 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2011년 11월 30일 출간

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The Children of Eve is the first book to bring together general material about population and well-being in a single volume. It presents a world history of demographic and economic change that ranges broadly over time and space and which emphasizes the commonality of human experience.The first book to put together material about population and well-being in a single volumeEmphasizes the formative population history of Europe and North America over the years since the Middle Ages, and includes discussions of Asia and the southern hemisphereThe authors successfully maintain the difficult balance of addressing complex issues in a style that doesn't over-simplify the subject, whilst upholding an approach that is accessible to general readers and studentsDesigned to work as both a stand alone text or a supplement to textbooks in any number of courses

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List of Figures, Tables, and Appendices xiPreface xvAcknowledgments xviiiPart One Initial Conditions 1Chapter One Overview 31.1 Introduction 31.2 Human Origins 71.3 The 40 000 Years to 10 000 BC 91.4 The Last 12 000 Years 111.5 A Few Fundamentals of Population Growth 141.6 The Quality and Quantity of Life 151.7 The English Parson, Thomas Malthus 171.8 Measurement and Inference 191.9 The Census 22A. A Nearly Modern Census 22B. Modern Censuses 24C. Some Problems of Early Modern Censuses 251.10 Models of Human Behavior 261.11 Outline 27Chapter Two The Historical Setting 312.1 Introduction 312.2 The Demographic Transition 312.3 Structural Transition of the Economy 332.4 Long-Run Changes in Economic Well-Being 362.5 Net Replacement 402.6 Dependency and Participation 432.7 How Does the Demographic Transition End or Does It? 452.8 Variation 502.9 Globalization, Macroeconomics and Population 522.10 Institutional Change and Externalities 56Part Two Growth and Dispersal of the Human Population 63Chapter Three Mortality: The Fourth Horseman 653.1 What Do People Die From? 653.2 Infant and Child Mortality 703.3 The Probability of Death and Life Expectancy 733.4 Seasonal Pattern of Death 823.5 Seasonality and Longevity 843.6 Urban Mortality 853.7 The Mortality Transition: Crude Death Rates 89Chapter Four The Fertility Transition 984.1 The Fertility Transition 984.2 The Queen and the Anabaptists 1004.3 Strategic Choice 1024.4 When to Marry 1064.5 The &"Never Married&" 1114.6 Illegitimacy 1144.7 The Seasonal Pattern of Birth 1154.8 Disruptions 1174.9 The Fertility Transition: Crude Birth Rates 1184.10 Farms and Towns 123Chapter Five Long Distance Migration 1325.1 The Migratory Instinct 1325.2 Who&-s In and Who&-s Out 1365.3 Migration of the Unfree 138A. S

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“With a heavy dose of historical dialogue, the authors examine contemporary population patterns intertwined with economic and demographic themes to understand the human condition … Their goal is splendidly accomplished … Summing up: highly recommended; all levels/libraries.”& (Choice, 1 March 2013)

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저자(글) Louis P. Cain

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Louis P. Cain is Professor of Economics at Loyola University Chicago, Adjunct Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, Senior Investigator at the Center for Population Economics, University of Chicago, and Research Economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern. With the late Jonathan Hughes, he is the author of American Economic History, now in its 8th edition (2011). His research includes projects on urban mortality, urban sanitation, industrial development, and the economic history of Chicago. He has served as a trustee of the Economic History Association and the Business History Conference, and as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Cliometric Society.Donald G. Paterson is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of British Columbia. He received his D.Phil from the University of Sussex and held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge. He is the author (with William L Marr) of Canada: An Economic History (1980) and has published widely in the areas of history of international investment, economic history of natural resource use, history of US technical change, macro-economic history of Canada, and business history.Cain and Paterson previously co-authored two articles on biased technological change in The Journal of Economic History.