"When Trollope returned to England from the colonies in 1872 he was horrified by the immorality and dishonesty he found. In a fever of indignation he sat down to write The Way ...

Discusses how many people the earth can support in terms of economic, physical, and environmental aspects.

This book traces the global history of rising life expectancy in the last 200 years.

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In human populations, biological, social, spatial, ecological and economic aspects of existence are inextricably linked, demanding a holistic approach to their study. Many ...

This book examines the demographic behaviour of families in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Germany.

This was the first paperback edition of a classic work of recent English historiography, first published in 1981. In analysing the population of a country over several ...

An examination of the complex interrelationships among past demographic, social, and economic structures demonstrates how the impact of hunger and disease can enhance the ...

This 1992 volume makes available to a student audience one of the most controversial and misunderstood works published during the last two hundred years. Malthus' Essay on the ...