A Concise History of World Population

by Livi-Bacci, Massimo

• ISBN13: 9780470673201
• ISBN10: 0470673206
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-23
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The new edition of this standard history of world population has been updated to include discussions of prehistoric migration and the effects of environmental and climate change, as well as expanded coverage of low fertility rates in developing Asian and Latin American countries. This edition also features fully-updated statistics, tables, and bibliography, as well as weblinks to key scientific journals.

Author Biography

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 Collège de France, and the Colegio de México. 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).

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. viii
List of Tables	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
The Space and Strategy of Demographic Growth	p. 1
Humans and Animals	p. 1
Divide and Multiply	p. 5
Jacopo Bichi and Domenica Del Buono, Jean Guyon and Mathurine Robin	p. 7
Reproduction and Survival	p. 9
The Space of Growth	p. 17
Environmental Constraints	p. 19
A Few Figures	p. 24
Notes	p. 27
Further Reading	p. 31
Demographic Growth: Between Choice and Constraint	p. 32
Constraint, Choice, Adaptation	p. 32
From Hunters to Farmers: The Neolithic Demographic Transition	p. 34
Black Death and Demographic Decline in Europe	p. 41
The Tragedy of the American Indios: Old Microbes and New Populations	p. 46
Africa, America, and the Slave Trade	p. 53
The French Canadians: A Demographic Success Story	p. 57
Ireland and Japan: Two Islands, Two Histories	p. 61
On the Threshold of the Contemporary World: China and Europe	p. 66
Notes	p. 73
Further Reading	p. 80
Land, Labor, and Population	p. 82
Diminishing Returns and Demographic Growth	p. 82
Historical Confirmations	p. 86
Demographic Pressure and Economic Development	p. 91
More on Demographic Pressure and Development: Examples from the Stone Age to the Present Day	p. 95
Space, Land, and Development	p. 98
Population Size and Prosperity	p. 105
Increasing or Decreasing Returns? 108 Notes 109 Further Reading	p. 112
Toward Order and Efficiency: The Recent Demography of Europe and the Developed World	p. 114
From Waste to Economy	p. 114
From Disorder to Order: The Lengthening of Life	p. 119
From High to Low Fertility	p. 125
European Emigration: A Unique Phenomenon	p. 132
A Summing Up: The Results of the Transition	p. 138
Theoretical Considerations on the Relationship between Demographic and Economic Growth	p. 140
More on the Relationship between Demographic and Economic Growth: Empirical Observations 146 Notes 153 Further Reading	p. 158
The Populations of Poor Countries	p. 160
An Extraordinary Phase	p. 160
The Conditions of Survival	p. 165
A Brief Geography of Fertility	p. 172
The Conditions and Prospects for Fertility Decline and Demographic Policy	p. 177
India and China	p. 185
Fertilia and Sterilia	p. 194
Explaining a Paradox 198 Notes 205 Further Reading	p. 212
The Future 214 1 Population and Self-Regulation	p. 214
The Numbers of the Future	p. 216
The North-South Divide and International Migration	p. 223
On Sustainability of Extended Survival	p. 230
The Moving Limits	p. 238
The Emerging Limits	p. 243
The Emerging Limits: Non-Renewable Resources and Food	p. 246
The Emerging Limits: Space and Environment	p. 250
Calculations and Values	p. 254
Notes	p. 258
Further Reading	p. 262
Major Scientific Journals for Further Reading	p. 264
Index	p. 265
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