Overview

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 scholarship * Includes new sections on theories of migration in pre-history * Expands discussion of low fertility rates in developing Asian and Latin American countries * Fuller coverage of population and environmental change, including the effects of climate change * Bibliographic updates include weblinks to key scientific journals

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<p> This little book is indeed concise, covering such a vast territory, but it is not at all superficial. It is a 'must-read' for all serious students of population. (Canadian Studies in Population, 2014)

This little book is indeed concise, covering such a vast territory, but it is not at all superficial. It is a 'must-read' for all serious students of population. ( Canadian Studies in Population , 2014)

This little book is indeed concise, covering such a vast territory, but it is not at all superficial. It is a 'must-read' for all serious students of population. (Canadian Studies in Population, 2014)

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Massimo Livi-Bacci is Professor of Demography at theUniversity of Florence. A former president of the InternationalUnion for the Scientific Study of Population, his extensiveresearch interests include contemporary demography as well as thehistory of population. He has taught and held fellowships atuniversities all over the world, including Princeton University,the University of California at Berkeley, the College deFrance, and the Colegio de Mexico. His many publicationsinclude Population and Nutrition (1991), The Populationof Europe: A History (Blackwell, 1999), and Conquest: TheDestruction of the American Indios (2007).

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