Population and demography

This five-volume documentary collection--culled from an international archival search that turned up over 14,000 letters, speeches, pamphlets, essays, and newspaper editorials--reveals how black abolitionists represented the core of the antislavery movement.

Look around you and think for a minute: Is America too crowded?

"e;Why does my congressional district look like a salamander?

Due to the accelerating demographic change of the population the reform of the existing pension systems constitutes one of the greatest political challenges in most European countries.

This volume aims to present the essential work of geographer and historical ecologist William M.

This revised and updated fifth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States, including its history, the principal theories seeking to account for its diverse origins, the main types of immigrants, and the various forms of immigrants incorporation within American society.

This book focuses on the concept of subjective views of aging.

In the 50 years that have passed since Alfred Latka's death in 1949 his position as the father of mathematical demography has been secure.

Employment Expansion and Population Growth: The California Experience, 1900-1950 provides a detailed analysis of the dramatic population growth and employment trends that shaped California's development during the first half of the 20th century.

World Population: Past, Present, & Future uses a multidisciplinary approach to investigate in depth on important aspects of the evolution of world population not well addressed previously.

Around the world, policymakers and civil society are debating how economic and trade policies shape public health.

Acta Demographica ist eine offizielle Publikation der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Bevölkerungswissenschaft.

Social differences in health and mortality constitute a persistent finding in epidemiological, demographic, and sociological research.

Biosocial Surveys analyzes the latest research on the increasing number of multipurpose household surveys that collect biological data along with the more familiar interviewerrespondent information.

Families in America presents a wide selection of information from the American Community Survey that helps us describe American living arrangements, relationships, marriages, births, children, and incomes.

Illuminating the class issues that shaped the racial uplift movement, Toure Reed explores the ideology and policies of the national, New York, and Chicago Urban Leagues during the first half of the twentieth century.

The census coverage measurement programs have historically addressed three primary objectives: (1) to inform users about the quality of the census counts; (2) to help identify sources of error to improve census taking, and (3) to provide alternative counts based on information from the coverage measurement program.

Recent decades have seen a fundamental change in the age structure of many western societies.

Volume 1 provides an overview of the core areas of sociology and the development of the discipline that is both comprehensive and up to date.

Demography drives religious change.

Cecil Rhodes was an imposing figure, tall, robust-looking, with a leonine head, a man so charismatic that one contemporary claimed that "e;belief in Rhodes was a substitute for religion.

An exploration of the rise and fall of the dynastic Verney family of Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire.

Am Fallbeispiel einer Verteiler-LKW-Tätigkeit wird eine Computersimulation als arbeitswissenschaftliches Instrumentarium zur Beurteilung von Belastungen und Beanspruchungen bei der Fahrzeugführung vorgestellt.

Hydropower generation by construction of large dams attracts considerable attention as a feasible renewable energy source to meet the power demand in Asian cities.

Much has been written about the profound impact the post-World War II baby boomers had on American religion.

This book brings together two major trends influencing economic and social life: population ageing on the one side, and migration on the other.

This book provides an insightful sociological study of the shrinking Japanese population through a regional variation perspective as it varies significantly by municipality, even within the same prefecture.

Soloway examines the origins of the modern birth control movement in England in the wider context of the dramatic decline in fertility that first became apparent in the 1880s.

State Profiles 2022: The Population and Economy of Each U.

Homelessness is now a much greater problem than twenty years ago.

The completion of this volume would not have been possible without the generous and dedicated help of numerous people.

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Cet ouvrage est une analyse approfondie des dynamiques démographiques en République du Congo, mettant en lumière les enjeux liés à la croissance rapide de la population.

Key Demographics in Retirement Risk Management argues that the weakening of public and employer-sponsored social safety nets in several countries will permanently increase pre-retirees' risk-anxiety and create pressure towards readjustment of their expectations about the quality of their lives in retirement.

At the turn of the century, the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company became the "e;world's largest Negro business.

Although we may not think we notice them, storefronts and their signage are meaningful, and the impact they have on people is significant.

With the end of the Cold War, the Department of Energy is engaged in a review of its policies regarding the classification of information.