Population and demography

A Population History of India provides an account of the size and characteristics of India's population stretching from when hunter-gatherer homo sapiens first arrived in the country - very roughly seventy thousand years ago - until the modern day.

This book examines the migration of older persons to rural retirement destinations in the United States.

The Affective Agency of Public Space explores the pivotal role that public spaces play in fostering social inclusion and community cohesion within various settings, including Europe and the United States.

An authoritative overview of the continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day.

This book suggests that the enduring problem of generations remains that of knowledge: how society conceptualises the relationship between past, present and future, and the ways in which this is transmitted by adults to the young.

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Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City sheds new light on the literature of the early US by exploring how literature, theatre, architecture, and images worked together to allow readers to imagine themselves as urbanites even before cities developed.

Government sponsored breeding programs, medals of motherhood, forced abortions, and surgical sterilization on park benches--all of these policies have come out of government efforts to nationalize sex and harness procreation as a tool of the state.

"e;Perhaps the most authoritative and readable single-volume history of immigration yet written.

'Jha is the right scholar and economist to take readers through the development of the Indian economy.

Shiksa Speaks: A White, Non-Jew's Understanding of the Cuban Jewish Diaspora and Its Legacy focuses on Cuban Jews, or Jewbans, whose family emigrated from Eastern Europe to the island in the 1920s then again to the US after the 1959 revolution in which Fidel Castro took power.

This book presents an important study of the history of ageing.

Environmental change in general, and climatic change in particular, are likely to impact significantly upon resources such as water and soils, transforming present day landscapes and their ecological characteristics.

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From Communists to Foreign Capitalists explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization.

Between 1965 and 1985, the Western world and the United States in particular experienced a staggering amount of social and economic change.

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

Original case study of how a peasant society in early modern Europe sustained its economy.

In the decades following World War II, American scientists were celebrated for their contributions to social and technological progress.

Inspired by recent developments in social theory and based on extensive archival research, this book provides the first systematic analysis of the developing knowledge capacities of the state in Victorian Canada.

Population health is complex and multileveled, encompassing dynamic interactions between cells, societies, and everything in between.

In this interdisciplinary book, experts from philosophy, medicine, law, psychology, economics, and social sciences address questions and develop solutions for a well-designed society of long life.

In one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city, Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the core of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The Children of Eve is the first book to bring together general material about population and well-being in a single volume.

What is population history about?

This book is devoted to the study of children''s skeletons from archaeological and forensic contexts.

During the 1990s, Naples left-wing administration sought to tackle the city s infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city s cultural and architectural heritage.

This monograph outlines an integrative framework that conceptualizes the role of relations of control in human reproduction and long-term population dynamics.

Construit comme un récit de voyage, ce livre explore les mouvements psychiques mobilisés par notre rapport à la terre, à l’espace et à la géographie.

This book focuses on the strict orthodox Jewish (Haredi) community, which comprises many sects whose communal identity plays a central role in everyday life and spatial organization.

In May 2002 Timor Leste (East Timor) emerged as a new nation after centuries of foreign rule and decades of struggle for independence.

The Chinese economy is undergoing dramatic changes and the world is watching and changing along with it.

Problem Society is an essential introduction to the many facets of divided societies.

Human rights issues are shaping the modern world.

The transition to twenty-first century post-industrial capitalism from the 'welfare' industrial capitalism of the twentieth century, has affected the ways in which class is lived in terms of relational inequality and the factors that structure identity.

While the question to why work beyond sixty has now become obvious, the how and for whom questions are the real topic of this new study by one of the best European specialists in the area.

Each year in the United States, more than 625,000 individuals are released from prison.

This volume sheds new light on the refugees and forced migration at the Horn of Africa and East Africa.

Although both demography and gender relations have been the focus of research for quite some time, the intersection of gender studies and demographic analysis is a more recent phenomenon.

The purpose of this book is to examine the etiology of cancer in large human populations using mathematical models developed from an inter-disciplinary perspective of the population epidemiological, biodemographic, genetic and physiological basis of the mechanisms of cancer initiation and progression.

The study of death has the capacity to bring together a range of policy areas.

Given current demographic trends, nearly one in five U.

This book provides in-depth comparative studies of the two largest cities and metropolitan areas in the United States: New York City and Los Angeles.

Many important contemporary debates cross economics and religion, in turn raising questions about the relationship between the two fields.

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

This book examines the recent evolution of the Mediterranean Welfare regime, and how the economic crisis may be contributing to redefine its basic traits.

Before May 2011 the top demographics experts of the United Nations had suggested that world population would peak at 9.

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

Vital statistics, the records of birth and death, are a critical national information resource for understanding public health.