Population and demography

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.

Around the world, people nearing and entering retirement are holding ever-greater levels of debt than in the past.

Around the world, people nearing and entering retirement are holding ever-greater levels of debt than in the past.

The anthropological demography of health, as a field of interdisciplinary population research, has grown from the 1990s, extending to a remarkable range of key human and policy issues, including: genetic disorders; nutrition; mental health; infant, child, and maternal morbidity; malaria; HIV/AIDS; disability and chronic diseases; new reproductive technologies; and population ageing.

The anthropological demography of health, as a field of interdisciplinary population research, has grown from the 1990s, extending to a remarkable range of key human and policy issues, including: genetic disorders; nutrition; mental health; infant, child, and maternal morbidity; malaria; HIV/AIDS; disability and chronic diseases; new reproductive technologies; and population ageing.

Urbanization is one of the most important phenomena in economic development.

Urbanization is one of the most important phenomena in economic development.

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.

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.

Condensed into a detailed analysis and a selection of continent-wide datasets, this revised edition of World Population & Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century addresses the role of educational attainment in global population trends and models.

Condensed into a detailed analysis and a selection of continent-wide datasets, this revised edition of World Population & Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century addresses the role of educational attainment in global population trends and models.

Contrary to predictions that it would become increasingly redundant in a globalizing world, citizenship is back with a vengeance.

Contrary to predictions that it would become increasingly redundant in a globalizing world, citizenship is back with a vengeance.

Scotland's Populations is a coherent and comprehensive description and analysis of the most recent 170 years of Scottish population history.

Scotland's Populations is a coherent and comprehensive description and analysis of the most recent 170 years of Scottish population history.

What are the impacts of population growth?

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English cleric whose ideas, as expounded in his most famous work the Essay on the Principle of Population, caused a storm of controversy.

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to the distinguishing features of Chinese families.

Malthus's Essay looks at the perennial tendency of humans to outstrip their resources: reproduction always exceeds food production.

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to the distinguishing features of Chinese families.

As China is transformed, relations between society, the state, and the city have become central.

The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science.

Developed countries, especially in Europe, face a number of issue related to migration: social and economic disruptions caused by the declining demand for unskilled labour and resulting unemployment, a shortage of skilled labour in many professions, increasing international competition for highly qualified human capital, radical demographic changes, and the forthcoming expansion of the European Union, which will trigger further immigration into major European countries and create new market opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe.

By 1300, medieval men and women were beginning to measure multitude, counting, for example, numbers of boys and girls being baptized.

With the largest population in the world, China has experienced significant demographic, social, and economic changes in recent decades.

Why did Europe experience industrialisation and modern economic growth before China, India or Japan?

Throughout its history as a social science, demography has been associated with an exclusively quantitative orientation for studying social problems.

In this synthetic, interdisciplinary work, Neil Brenner develops a new interpretation of the transformation of statehood under contemporary globalizing capitalism.

Over the past two decades, the epidemic of HIV/AIDS has challenged the public health community to fundamentally rethink the framework for preventing infectious diseases.

Western families are undergoing considerable change.

The effect of demography on economic performance has been the subject of intense debate in economics for nearly two centuries.

Expelling the Germans focuses on how Britain perceived the mass movement of German populations from Poland and Czechoslovakia at the end of the Second World War.

The voices in this book belong to parliamentarians, city councillors, doctors and engineers, a few professors, lawyers and social workers, owners of small businesses, translators, and community activists.

The Human Sciences address problems in nature and society that often require coordinated approaches of several scientific disciplines and scholarly research, embracing the social and biological sciences, and history.

This handbook presents a collection of high-quality, authoritative scientific contributions on cross-border migration, written by a carefully selected group of recognized migration experts from around the globe.

Predicting the shape of our future populations is vital for installing the infrastructure, welfare, and provisions necessary for society to survive.

Predicting the shape of our future populations is vital for installing the infrastructure, welfare, and provisions necessary for society to survive.

During the 1990s lone mothers reached the top of the political agenda, viewed as both a drain on public expenditure and a moral threat.

During the 1990s lone mothers reached the top of the political agenda, viewed as both a drain on public expenditure and a moral threat.

What are the impacts of population growth?

This book addresses systematically and quantitatively the role of educational attainment in global population trends and models.

The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics presents up-to-date theoretical analyses of various problems associated with the moral standing of future people and animals in current decision-making.

The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics presents up-to-date theoretical analyses of various problems associated with the moral standing of future people and animals in current decision-making.

Foreign assistance by the United States is tangled with domestic politics, and perhaps this is most clear in relation to funding for health and family planning.

Foreign assistance by the United States is tangled with domestic politics, and perhaps this is most clear in relation to funding for health and family planning.

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.

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.

Creative Team Work describes a new way of doing rapid ethnography to capture the rich complexity and contradictions of social relations.

Creative Team Work describes a new way of doing rapid ethnography to capture the rich complexity and contradictions of social relations.

In this study of exile, Sean Akerman chronicles the ways in which narrative approaches provide opportunities to understand and represent the lives of those who have been displaced after violence.