Livi Bacci, Massimo.
Oxford Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, ©1999.
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Part of the series Making of Europe;Making of Europe.
Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-213) and index.
- 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.
- This book presents the reader with a history of the inter-relationships between population, land, resources, and disease in Europe. Professor Livi Bacci integrates the key component of culture to provide a history from the first peopling of Europe through centuries of famine, hunger and premature death, up to present-day low mortality, negligible hunger and population stability. –Jacket.
- Translation of La popolazione nella storia d’Europa.
Subjects:
- Europe — Population — History.
- Population — Europe.
- Population Density — Europe.
- Europe — Population — Histoire.
- Europe. fast (OCoLC)fst01245064
- Europe — Population — Histoire. ram
- Europa. swd
- History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628
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