| Description |
xii, 220 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Series |
The Making of Europe |
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Making of Europe.
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| Contents |
1. Numbers -- Factors of constraint and factors of choice -- A millennium of demographic development -- Slow change in old regime societies -- Interpretive choices -- 2. Space -- Geography and environment -- The conquest of space before the Black Death -- Again eastward and southward -- Settlement intensification and land reclamation -- Consolidation -- 3. Food -- Population and nutrition-- Nutrition, infection, and mortality -- Bread and its accompaniments -- Long-term nutrition and mortality -- Paradoxes and reality -- 4. Microbes and disease -- Lives on the brink -- A world in motion -- The plague : four-handed game -- The final match -- Demographic losses -- Other factors and the road to normality -- 5. Systems -- Demographic systems -- England, France, and Germany -- Marriage -- Fertility -- More on infant mortality -- Migration -- Equilibrium and transformations -- 6. The great transformation (1800-1914) -- A frame of reference -- Demographic expansion : numbers and interpretations -- Two months per year : increasing life expectancy -- Infant mortality yet again -- The advent of birth control -- Outside of Europe -- 7. The end of a cycle -- Demography in the twentieth century : mortality and fertility -- Demography in the twentieth century : migration, structures, models -- Politics -- Economics -- Values |
| Notes |
Translation of: Popolazione nella storia d'Europa |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Population.
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Population Density.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Population http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114987 -- History.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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Europe. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005060 |
| LC no. |
99029297 |
| ISBN |
0631200789 hb alkaline paper |
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0631218815 paperback alkaline paper |
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