Population & Demography

Current social and economic changes in Canada raise many questions. Will Canada's education system be able to maintain its competitiveness when fac...

Inspired by recent developments in social theory and based on extensive archival research, this book provides the first systematic analysis of the ...

Women held a central place in long-settled rural communities like the Nanticoke Valley in upstate New York during the late nineteenth century. Thei...

A Stanford University Press classic.

Charlotte L. Forten (1838-1914) was sensitive, intelligent, and educated in the culture and conventions of pre-Civil War America. But one thing dis...

Portrait of America describes our nation's changing population and examines through a demographic lens some of our most pressing contemporary chall...

Using local studies to answer global questions, this compilation challenges traditional notions concerning historical Chinese population trends. Ge...

In the wake of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, millions took to the streets to demonstrate their revulsion, ...

The birth rate in late-nineteenth century Russia was high and virtually constant, but by 1970 it had fallen by about two-thirds. Although similar r...

A wide range of expert opinion on current demographic problems is presented in this book, based on the proceedings of the 1949 meeting of the Popul...

Capitalism appears to be endlessly in crisis but without ever loosening its hold on our lives. New modes of racism and exclusion emerge, but the ol...

Truth's landmark slave narrative chronicles her experiences as a slave in upstate New York and her transformation into an extraordinary abolitionis...

As recently as the 1960s, more than half of all American adults belonged to just a handful of mainline Protestant denominations—Presbyterian, UCC, ...

Across the Color Line: Reporting 25 Years in Black Cincinnati presents newspaper reporter Mark Curnutte’s stories published in The Cincinnati Enqui...

How should we evaluate the ethics of procreation, especially the environmental consequences of reproductive decisions on future generations, in a r...