Population & demography books

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The African Diaspora Population in Britain: Migrant Identities and Experiences

The African Diaspora Population in Britain: Migrant...

Author: Peter J. Aspinall ,  Martha J. Chinouya
ISBN: 9781137456533
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This insightful book examines the Black African diaspora in Britain through an examination of its demography, recent...  Read More >>

Land ohne Kinder: Wege aus der demographischen Krise

Land ohne Kinder: Wege aus der demographischen Krise...

Author: Peter Mersch
ISBN: 9783842355606
Format: Paperback
$60.46

Die Menschen in Deutschland werden immer älter, gleichzeitig werden immer weniger Kinder geboren: Deutschland altert...  Read More >>

The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Rereading the Principle of Population

The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Rereading the...

Author: Alison Bashford ,  Joyce E. Chaplin
ISBN: 9780691164199
Format: Hardback
$79.99

The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our...  Read More >>

Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective

Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective

Author: Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University, UK) ,  Aaron Gillette (University of Houston-Downtown, USA)
ISBN: 9781474282758
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Latin eugenics was a scientific, cultural and political programme designed to biologically empower modern European...  Read More >>

Japan’s Household Registration System and Citizenship: Koseki, Identification and Documentation

Japan’s Household Registration System and Citizenship:...

Author: David Chapman (University of South Australia) ,  Karl Jakob Krogness (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781138678194
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Japan’s Household Registration System (koseki seido) is an extremely powerful state instrument, and is socially...  Read More >>

Familie als Beruf

Familie als Beruf

Author: Peter Mersch
ISBN: 9783842334564
Format: Paperback
$39.34

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Feminisms and Ruralities

Feminisms and Ruralities

Author: Barbara Pini ,  Berit Brandth
ISBN: 9781498508858
Format: Paperback
$61.95

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Population and Development in Poor Countries: Selected Essays

Population and Development in Poor Countries: Selected...

Author: Julian Lincoln Simon
ISBN: 9780691637433
Format: Hardback
$310.00

Making the case that population growth does not hinder economic progress and that it eventually raises standards...  Read More >>

Fatal Years: Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century America

Fatal Years: Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Samuel H. Preston ,  Michael R. Haines
ISBN: 9780691631806
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Fatal Years is the first systematic study of child mortality in the United States in the late nineteenth century....  Read More >>

Studies in Population

Studies in Population

Author: George F. Mair ,  George F Mair
ISBN: 9780691653464
Format: Hardback
$135.00

A wide range of expert opinion on current demographic problems is presented in this book, based on the proceedings...  Read More >>

The Contraceptive Revolution

The Contraceptive Revolution

Author: Charles F. Westoff ,  Norman B. Ryder
ISBN: 9780691643915
Format: Hardback
$250.00

Here is the full report of the 1970 National Fertility Study, a national sample survey for which thousands of women...  Read More >>

Family Planning in Taiwan: An Experiment in Social Change

Family Planning in Taiwan: An Experiment in Social Change...

Author: John Y. Takeshita ,  Ronald Freedman
ISBN: 9780691648613
Format: Hardback
$340.00

The experimental family planning program begun in 1963 in Taichung, the provincial capital of Taiwan, was the largest...  Read More >>

The Decline of Fertility in Germany, 1871-1939

The Decline of Fertility in Germany, 1871-1939

Author: Arthur J. Knodel
ISBN: 9780691645377
Format: Hardback
$215.00

This is the second in a series of monographs on the historic decline of European fertility to be issued by the Office...  Read More >>

Population and Revenue in the Towns of Palestine in the Sixteenth Century

Population and Revenue in the Towns of Palestine in...

Author: Bernard Lewis ,  Amnon Cohen
ISBN: 9780691632285
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Surveying the population and revenue of six Palestinian cities--Jerusalem, Hebron, Gaza, Ramie, Nabulus, and Safed--in...  Read More >>

New Estimates of Fertility and Population in the United States

New Estimates of Fertility and Population in the United...

Author: Ansley Johnson Coale ,  Melvin Zelnik
ISBN: 9780691651699
Format: Hardback
$135.00

Census decennial enumerations are utilized to achieve two useful estimates: (l) Annual series of estimates of births,...  Read More >>

The Vanishing Irish: Households, Migration, and the Rural Economy in Ireland, 1850-1914

The Vanishing Irish: Households, Migration, and the...

Author: Timothy W. Guinnane
ISBN: 9780691653822
Format: Hardback
$235.00

In the years between the Great Famine of the 1840s and the First World War, Ireland experienced a drastic drop in...  Read More >>

Men Who Migrate, Women Who Wait: Population and History in a Portuguese Parish

Men Who Migrate, Women Who Wait: Population and History...

Author: Caroline B. Brettell
ISBN: 9780691638287
Format: Hardback
$235.00

The author examines not only the imbalance in the marital fortunes of men and women but its effect on the roles...  Read More >>

From Provinces into Nations: Demographic Integration in Western Europe, 1870-1960

From Provinces into Nations: Demographic Integration...

Author: Susan Cotts Watkins
ISBN: 9780691636702
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Between 1870 and 1960, national boundaries became more evident on the demographic map of Western Europe. In most...  Read More >>

The Population of the British Colonies in America Before 1776: A Survey of Census Data

The Population of the British Colonies in America Before...

Author: Robert V. Wells
ISBN: 9780691644769
Format: Hardback
$225.00

In this book Robert V. Wells presents an exhaustive survey of recently discovered census data covering 21 American...  Read More >>

Population Growth and Economic Development

Population Growth and Economic Development

Author: Ansley Johnson Coale ,  Edgar M. Hoover, Jr.
ISBN: 9780691652672
Format: Hardback
$260.00

The main contribution of this book lies in its focus on real alternatives in future population growth. At some time-taken...  Read More >>

The British Fertility Decline: Demographic Transition in the Crucible of the Industrial Revolution

The British Fertility Decline: Demographic Transition...

Author: Michael S. Teitelbaum
ISBN: 9780691640181
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Building on the theory of the demographic transition, Michael S. Teitelbaum assesses the dramatic decline in British...  Read More >>

Fertility and Scarcity in America

Fertility and Scarcity in America

Author: Peter H. Lindert
ISBN: 9780691640891
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Scholars have charged population growth with lowering aggregate income per capita, depleting natural resources,...  Read More >>

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