The human tide how population shaped the modern world
"A dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires The rise and fall of the British Empire; the emergence of America as a superpower; the ebb and flow of global challenges from Nazi Germany, Imperial Ja...
| Main Author: | Morland, Paul (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc.,
[2019].
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| Edition: | First US edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part one: Population and history. Introduction ; The weight of numbers
- Part two: The gathering tide : among the Europeans. The triumph of the Anglo-Saxons ; The German and Russian challenges ; The passing of the 'great race' ; The West since 1945 : from baby-boom to mass immigration ; Russia and the Eastern Bloc from 1945 : the demography of Cold War defeat
- Part three: The tide goes global : beyond the Europeans. Japan, China and East Asia : the ageing of giants ; The Middle East and North Africa : the demography of instability ; Nothing new under the sun? : final frontiers and future vistas
- Appendix I: How life expectancy is calculated
- Appendix II: How the total fertility rate is calculated.