A Concise History of World Population

Massimo Livi-Bacci 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2012년 03월 09일 출간

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This fifth edition of the essential history of world population is updated with the most recent and significant scholarship on the topic. Reworked sections analyze the impact of environmental and climate change, discuss declining fertility in developing nations, and track the continuing impact of HIV-AIDS.Central themes updated and revised to take account of new scholarshipIncludes new sections on theories of migration in pre-historyExpands discussion of low fertility rates in developing Asian and Latin American countriesFuller coverage of population and environmental change, including the effects of climate changeBibliographic updates include weblinks to key scientific journals

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List of Figures viiiList of Tables xiPreface xiii1 The Space and Strategy of Demographic Growth 11 Humans and Animals 12 Divide and Multiply 53 Jacopo Bichi and Domenica Del Buono, Jean Guyon and Mathurine Robin 74 Reproduction and Survival 95 The Space of Growth 176 Environmental Constraints 197 A Few Figures 24Notes 27Further Reading 312 Demographic Growth: Between Choice and Constraint 321 Constraint, Choice, Adaptation 322 From Hunters to Farmers: The Neolithic Demographic Transition 343 Black Death and Demographic Decline in Europe 414 The Tragedy of the American Indios: Old Microbes and New Populations 465 Africa, America, and the Slave Trade 536 The French Canadians: A Demographic Success Story 577 Ireland and Japan: Two Islands, Two Histories 618 On the Threshold of the Contemporary World: China and Europe 66Notes 73Further Reading 803 Land, Labor, and Population 821 Diminishing Returns and Demographic Growth 822 Historical Confirmations 863 Demographic Pressure and Economic Development 914 More on Demographic Pressure and Development: Examples from the Stone Age to the Present Day 955 Space, Land, and Development 986 Population Size and Prosperity 1057 Increasing or Decreasing Returns? 108Notes 109Further Reading 1124 Toward Order and Efficiency: The Recent Demography of Europe and the Developed World 1141 From Waste to Economy 1142 From Disorder to Order: The Lengthening of Life 1193 From High to Low Fertility 1254 European Emigration: A Unique Phenomenon 1325 A Summing Up: The Results of the Transition 1386 Theoretical Considerations on the Relationship between Demographic and Economic Growth 1407 More on the Relationship between Demographic and Economic Growth: Empirical Observations 146Notes 153Further Reading 1585 The Populations of Poor Countries 1601 An Extraordinary Phase 160

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저자(글) Massimo Livi-Bacci

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Massimo Livi-Bacci is Professor of Demography at the University of Florence. A former president of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, his extensive research interests include contemporary demography as well as the history of population. He has taught and held fellowships at universities all over the world, including Princeton University, the University of California at Berkeley, the Collegrave;ge de France, and the Colegio de Me'xico. His many publications include Population and Nutrition (1991), The Population of Europe: A History (Blackwell, 1999), and Conquest: The Destruction of the American Indios (2007).