A Concise History of World Population

by Livi-Bacci, Massimo

• ISBN13: 9781405146968
• ISBN10: 1405146966
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-22
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The new edition of this standard history of world population has been updated to include projections to the year 2050. It includes the latest data on fertility and infant mortality and a new section on migration has been added. The discussion of America is completely rewritten to give a fuller view of the past, including reference to the slave trade, and coverage of China has been expanded. Includes new sections on migration - an emerging issue for rich and poor countries alike - and the impact of HIV. Provides the latest data on fertility and infant mortality. Discussion of America is completely rewritten to give a fuller view of the past, including reference to the slave trade, and coverage of China has been expanded. Updates the quantitative material and bibliography.

Author Biography

Massimo Livi-Bacci is Professor of Demography at the University of Florence. He has been President of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. He has published extensively on contemporary demography as well as on the history of population, and has taught or held fellowships at universities all over the world, including the Collège de France, the Colegio de México, Princeton University of California at Berkeley, and Brown University, Providence, RI. His books include Population and Nutrition (1991), The Population of Europe. A History (1999), and Conquista. The Destruction of American Indios (in Italian; 2005).

Table of Contents

List of Figures	viii
List of Tables	xii
Preface	xiv
1 The Space and Strategy of Demographic Growth	1	(28)
1 Humans and Animals	1	(4)
2 Divide and Multiply	5	(2)
3 Jacopo Bichi and Domenica Del Buono, Jean Guyon and Mathurine Robin	7	(2)
4 Reproduction and Survival	9	(8)
5 The Space of Growth	17	(3)
6 Environmental Constraints	20	(5)
7 A Few Figures	25	(4)
2 Demographic Growth: Between Choice and Constraint	29	(41)
1 Constraint, Choice, Adaptation	29	(2)
2 From Hunters to Farmers: The Neolithic Demographic Transition	31	(7)
3 Black Death and Demographic Decline in Europe	38	(5)
4 The Tragedy of the American Indios: Old Microbes and New Populations	43	(6)
5 Africa, America, and the Slave Trade	49	(5)
6 The French Canadians: A Demographic Success Story	54	(4)
7 Ireland and Japan: Two Islands, Two Histories	58	(5)
8 On the Threshold of the Contemporary World: China and Europe	63	(7)
3 Land, Labor, and Population	70	(28)
1 Diminishing Returns and Demographic Growth	70	(4)
2 Historical Confirmations	74	(6)
3 Demographic Pressure and Economic Development	80	(3)
4 More on Demographic Pressure and Development: Examples from the Stone Age to the Present Day	83	(3)
5 Space, Land, and Development	86	(6)
6 Population Size and Prosperity	92	(3)
7 Increasing or Decreasing Returns?	95	(3)
4 Toward Order and Efficiency: The Recent Demography of Europe and the Developed World	98	(40)
1 From Waste to Economy	98	(5)
2 From Disorder to Order: The Lengthening of Life	103	(6)
3 From High to Low Fertility	109	(7)
4 European Emigration: A Unique Phenomenon	116	(6)
5 A Summing Up: The Results of the Transition	122	(1)
6 Theoretical Considerations on the Relationship between Demographic and Economic Growth	123	(4)
7 More on the Relationship between Demographic and Economic Growth: Empirical Observations	127	(11)
5 The Populations of Poor Countries	138	(45)
1 An Extraordinary Phase	138	(5)
2 The Conditions of Survival	143	(7)
3 A Brief Geography of Fertility	150	(6)
4 The Conditions and Prospects for Fertility Decline and Demographic Policy	156	(6)
5 India and China	162	(9)
6 Fertilia and Sterilia	171	(4)
7 Explaining a Paradox	175	(8)
6 The Future	183	(38)
1 Population and Self-Regulation	183	(2)
2 The Numbers of the Future	185	(6)
3 The North—South Divide and International Migration	191	(5)
4 On Sustainability of Extended Survival	196	(9)
5 The Moving Limits	205	(4)
6 The Emerging Limits: Resources	209	(4)
7 The Emerging Limits: Environment	213	(3)
8 Calculations and Values	216	(5)
Notes	221	(39)
Select Bibliography	260	(4)
Index	264