A Concise History of World Population, 4th Edition

List of Tables.

Preface.

1. The Space and Strategy of Demographic Growth.

1 Humans and Animals.

2 Divide and Multiply.

3 Jacopo Bichi and Domenica Del Buono, Jean Guyon and Mathurine Robin.

4 Reproduction and Survival.

5 The Space of Growth.

6 Environmental Constraints.

7 A Few Figures.

2. Demographic Growth: Between Choice and Constraint.

1 Constraint, Choice, Adaptation.

2 From Hunters to Farmers: The Neolithic Demographic Transition.

3 Black Death and Demographic Decline in Europe.

4 The Tragedy of the American Indios: Old Microbes and New Populations.

Africa, America, and the Slave Trade.

6 The French Canadians: A Demographic Success Story.

7 Ireland and Japan: Two Islands, Two Histories.

8 On the Threshold of the Contemporary World: China and Europe.

3. Land, Labor, and Population.

1 Diminishing Returns and Demographic Growth.

2 Historical Confirmations.

3 Demographic Pressure and Economic Development.

4 More on Demographic Pressure and Development: Examples from the Stone Age to the Present Day.

5 Space, Land, and Development.

6 Population Size and Prosperity.

7 Increasing or Decreasing Returns?.

4. Toward Order and Efficiency: The Recent Demography of Europe and the Developed World.

1 From Waste to Economy.

2 From Disorder to Order: The Lengthening of Life.

3 From High to Low Fertility.

4 European Emigration: A Unique Phenomenon.

5 A Summing Up: The Results of the Transition.

6 Theoretical Considerations on the Relationship between Demographic and Economic Growth.

7 More on the Relationship between Demographic and Economic Growth: Empirical Observations.

5. The Populations of Poor Countries.

1 An Extraordinary Phase.

2 The Conditions of Survival.

3 A Brief Geography of Fertility.

4 The Conditions and Prospects for Fertility Decline and Demographic Policy.

5 India and China.

6 Fertilia and Sterilia.

7 Explaining a Paradox.

6. The Future.

1 Population and Self-Regulation.

2 The Numbers of the Future.

3 The North--South Divide and International Migration.

4 On Sustainability of Extended Survival.

5 The Moving Limits.

6 The Emerging Limits: Resources.

7 The Emerging Limits: Environment.

8 Calculations and Values.

Notes.

Select Bibliography.

Index