The children of Eve: population and well-being in history
"This book explores contemporary population issues in a historical context. It is a world economic history of demographic change with emphasis on the well-being of the population. Exploring the years since the Middle Ages, this unique book emphasizes the commonality of human experience illustra...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "This book explores contemporary population issues in a historical context. It is a world economic history of demographic change with emphasis on the well-being of the population. Exploring the years since the Middle Ages, this unique book emphasizes the commonality of human experience illustrating how different people, at different times, in varying circumstances, responded to similar economic forces in more of less the same way"-- Provided by publisher. -- "The Children of Eve is the first single volume book to bring together general material on population issues, as it explores the subject of contemporary population in a historical context. The book presents a world history of economic and demographic change that ranges broadly over time and space, while simultaneously emphasizing the well-being of the population. By choosing a large canvas, the authors stress the commonality of human experience: that different people, at different times, and in varying circumstances have responded to similar economic forces in more or less the same way. The book highlights the formative population history of Europe and North America over the years since the Middle Ages. Asia and the southern hemisphere are also discussed within the text. The authors have written in non-technical language and successfully maintain the difficult balance of addressing complex issues in a style that doesn't over-simplify the subject, whilst upholding an approach that is accessible to general readers and students. Throughout the text, definitions and short explanations of economic and demographic terminology are presented in separate boxes to enhance ease of use, and each chapter concludes with a bibliography and selected readings. "-- Provided by publisher. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Umfang: | XIX, 391 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme |
| ISBN: | 9781444336894 9781444336900 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Figures, Tables, and Appendices
xi
Preface
xv
Acknowledgments
xviii
Part One Initial Conditions
1
Chapter One Overview
3
1.1
Introduction
3
1.2
Human Origins
7
1.3
The
40000
Years to
10000
ВС
9
1.4
The Last
12 000
Years
11
1.5
A Few Fundamentals of Population Growth
14
1.6
The Quality and Quantity of Life
15
1.7
The English Parson, Thomas
Malthus
17
1.8
Measurement and Inference
19
1.9
The Census
22
A. A Nearly Modern Census
22
B. Modern Censuses
24
C. Some Problems of Early Modern Censuses
25
1.10
Models of Human Behavior
26
1.11
Outline
27
Chapter Two The Historical Setting
31
2.1
Introduction
31
2.2
The Demographic Transition
31
2.3
Structural Transition of the Economy
33
2.4
Long-Run Changes in Economic Well-Being
36
2.5
Net Replacement
40
2.6
Dependency and Participation
43
2.7.
How Does the Demographic Transition End or Does It?
45
2.8
Variation
50
viii Contents
2.9
Globalization, Macroeconomics and Population
52
2.10
Institutional Change and Externalities
56
Part Two Growth and Dispersal of the Human Population
63
Chapter Three Mortality: The Fourth Horseman
65
3.1
What Do People Die From?
65
3.2
Infant and Child Mortality
70
3.3
The Probability of Death and Life Expectancy
73
3.4
Seasonal Pattern of Death
82
3.5
Seasonality and Longevity
84
3.6
Urban Mortality
85
3.7
The Mortality Transition: Crude Death Rates
89
Chapter Four The Fertility Transition
98
4.1
The Fertility Transition
98
4.2
The Queen and the Anabaptists
100
4.3
Strategic Choice
102
4.4
When to Marry
, 106
4.5
The Never Married :
111
4.6
Illegitimacy
114
4.7
The Seasonal Pattern of Birth
115
4.8
Disruptions
117
4.9
The Fertility Transition: Crude Birth Rates
118
4.10
Farms and Towns !
123
Chapter Five Long Distance Migration
■ 132
5.1
The Migratory Instinct
132
5.2
Who s In and Who s Out
136
5.3
Migration of the Unfree
138
A. Slaves
„ 138
B. Convicts and Indentured Servants
141
C. Child Migrants
» ■ -
144
5.4
The Atlantic: Waves of Immigration
145
5.5
Unbalanced Cargoes
150
5.6
Information and Advertising
152
5.7
Remittances: Then and Now
153
5.8
There and Back Again
-
Reverse Migrations
155
5.9
Diaspora
158
A. The Chinese
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B. The Irish
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162
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5.10
The Barriers Go Up
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166
5.11
The Walker Thesis, Displacement and Savings
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5.12
A Final Word on Long Distance Migration
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Contents ix
Chapter Six Regional Migration
181
6.1
Introduction
181
6.2
N The US Westward Movement and Other Frontiers
183
6.3
Urbanization and Industrial Change
188
6.4
The Rural-Urban Shift
191
6.5
Town and Farm and the Changing Economic Role of Children
195
6.6
The Great Black Migration in the US
195
6.7
Declining Regions: Dust Bowls and Yorkshire Coal Mines
198
6.8
Inter-Urban Migration
199
6.9
Migration: In the Neighborhood
200
A. Scotland
-
England
200
B. Canada-USA
201
6.10
The Undocumented
203
6.11
Convergence
205
6.12
Summary of Part Two
-
Putting It All Together
207
Part Three Choices and Their Consequences
217
Chapter Seven The Changing Family
219
7.1
Introduction
219
7.2
Courtship and Marriage
221
7.3
Household and Family Size
225
7.4
Child Labor
228
7.5
Family Connections: Networks
234
7.6
Marital Dissolution
236
7.7
Married Women s Property
240
7.8
Poverty: One-Parent Families and Elderly Females
242
Chapter Eight Health and Weil-Being
255
8.1
Introduction
255
8.2
Glasgow: Then and Now
256
8.3
Morbidity
257
8.4
Early Populations and Nutrition
262
8.5
Birth Weights
266
8.6
The Human Development Index
267
8.7
Obesity and the
BMI 269
8.8
Household Space
274
8.9
Health and Hospital Care Systems
276
Chapter Nine
Macroeconomic
Effects of the Industrial Transition
286
9.1
Introduction.
286
9.2
Shocks and Echoes
-
the Baby Boom
287
9.3
Children and the Saving Shift
288
9.4
Intergenerational Contracts or Life Cycles: Pensions
291
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9.5
The Work-Leisure Choice
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9.6
Time Spent in Household Work
301
9.7
Education and Human Capital
305
Chapter Ten Population Catastrophes
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10.1
The Nature of Catastrophes ;!.
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;:,
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,:
315
10.2
The Greenland Norse and the Easter Islanders
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10.3
North American Native Indians
і
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10.4
Famine
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321
10.5
We All Fall Down! Plague
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324
10.6
The HIV/AIDS Pandemic
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10.7
When, Not If? But Not Now! Flu Pandemics
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10.8
Summary
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342
Part Four Conclusions
351
Chapter Eleven Concluding Remarks
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General and Frequently Referenced Sources
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Index
360
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