Population and demography

This textbook presents an overview of the field of demography from a contemporary perspective.

This volume looks at how accumulation in postcolonial capitalism blurs the boundaries of space, institutions, forms, financial regimes, labour processes, and economic segments on one hand, and creates zones and corridors on the other.

Agent-Based Computational Demography (ABCD) aims at starting a new stream of research among social scientists whose interests lie in understanding demographic behaviour.

How everyday forms of surveillance threaten undocumented immigrantsbut also offer them hope for societal inclusionSome eleven million undocumented immigrants reside in the United States, carving out lives amid a growing web of surveillance that threatens their and their families' societal presence.

A clear, comprehensive survey of British history from 1900 to the present, integrating political, economic, social and cultural history.

A Winner of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa 2023 Bernard Lewis PrizeLandes, a medievalist and historian of apocalyptic movements, takes us through the first years of the third millennium (2000-2003), documenting how a radical inability of Westerners to understand the medieval mentality that drove Global Jihad prompted a series of disastrous misinterpretations and misguided reactions that have shaped our so-far unhappy century.

Despite efforts to build the state, profound political order in rural Afghanistan is maintained by self-governing, customary organizations.

The transitional phase from pre-older adult to older adult affects the wellbeing of the concerned person economically, physically, and psychologically.

In Disciplining Statistics Libby Schweber compares the science of population statistics in England and France during the nineteenth century, demonstrating radical differences in the interpretation and use of statistical knowledge.

This book provides a comparison of the measurement in time and monetary units of unpaid domestic work in Colombia, Costa Rica, Uruguay, and the Hispanic ethnicity in the United States.

For a few centuries, the science of demography has been in effect.

Called "e;the most unusually voyeuristic anthropology study ever conducted"e; by the New York Times, this groundbreaking book provides an unprecedented glimpse into modern-day American families.

The southern women's reform movement emerged late in the nineteenth century, several decades behind the formation of the northern feminist movement.

First published in 1972, this reissue deals with the crucial issue of population explosion, one of the most crucial problems facing the contemporary developing world.

Dieser Band enthält 15 Aufsätze zu bevölkerungswissenschaftlichen Themen wie Frauenerwerbstätigkeit in der EG, sozialer Status der Frauen in England und in den Niederlanden, demographische Krisen, die Hungerkatastrophe um 1860 in Finnland und in den 30er Jahren in der Ukraine, nicht-lineare demographische Prozesse, Migration und Öffentliche Güter, Mortalitäts-Vorausschätzungen für Österreich, Fertilität in der DDR.

First published in 1972, this is a book of essays offered in honour of Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, the distinguished economist whose career started in mid-1920s Vienna and subsequently spanned Europe, Britain, the USA and many of the less developed countries of the world.

This edited volume offers state-of-the-art research on the dynamics of contemporary fertility by examining the implications of the economic and social forces that are driving the rapid change in fertility behavior, and the changing context, determinants, and measurement of contemporary human reproduction.

This timely reference takes a rigorous look at the myriad ways technology, from smartphones to dating apps to social media, is affecting family life and opening new areas for study.

This volume represents one of the first efforts to harvest the rapidly emerging scholarship in the field of American rural history.

Demonstrates the passionate interest the Jeffersonian presidents had in wresting land from less powerful foes and expanding Jefferson's "e;empire of liberty"e; The first two decades of the 19th century found many Americans eager to move away from the crowded eastern seaboard and into new areas where their goals of landownership might be realized.

This book provides a timely review on what has been accomplished, and what remains amiss, following the World Health Organization's 1978 'Health for All' campaign, by identifying enduring gaps in health care within a global context.

This volume unpacks the phenomenon of skipped generation households-where children live with their grandparents and without their parents-as they become an increasingly common family dynamic in Nigeria and globally.

Hispanics and the Future of America presents details of the complex story of a populationthat varies in many dimensions, including national origin, immigration status,and generation.

The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.

This book shows the effectiveness of multiregional demography for studying the spatial dynamics of migration and population redistribution.

Serious research into the causes and implications of anaging population is a relatively recent phenomenon.

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This cutting edge collection examines Japan's population issue, exploring how declining demographic trends are affecting Japan's social structure, specifically in the context of Greater Tokyo, life infrastructure, public finance and the economy.

Although social, political, technological and business networks hold our modern world together, we still lack a good understanding of what business networks are, how they work, and the language of network analysis that we may apply to solve common, everyday problems.

While the high cost of education draws headlines, the cost of not educating America's children goes largely ignored.

In the first half of the twentieth century, white elites who dominated Virginia politics sought to increase state control over African Americans and lower-class whites, whom they saw as oversexed and lacking sexual self-restraint.

The problem of homelessness in America underpins the definition of an American city: what it is, who it is for, what it does, and why it matters.

Documenting the daily efforts of African Americans to protect their community against highly oppressive conditions, this ground-breaking volume chronicles the unique experiences of black women that place them at higher risk for morbidity and mortality - especially during pregnancy.

Bernard (Barney) Berelson had a major influence in the application of social science concepts and methods to population policy during the period from 1962 to 1980.

The themes of migration and economic development are traditionally related.

This book provides theoretical and applied material for estimating vital parts of demography and health issues including the healthy aging process along with calculating the healthy life years lost to disability.

Russia has one of the lowest rates of adult life expectancy in the world.

La démographie, qui affirme être une science, n’a-t-elle pas aussi des préjugés idéologiques ?