Population & Demography

Personal Justice Denied tells the extraordinary story of the incarceration of mainland Japanese Americans and Alaskan Aleuts during World War II. A...

This book addresses nine relevant questions: Will population growth reduce the growth rate of per capita income because it reduces the per capita a...

The U.S. census, conducted every 10 years since 1790, faces dramatic new challenges as the country begins its third century. Critics of the 1990 ce...

"Provides a rich prism through which to explore the social, economic, and political development of black Cincinnati. These studies offer insight in...

Immigrants and their children became the chief component of the U.S. working class during the nineteenth century. Bruce Levine examines the early y...

The economics of population has a long and controversial history as well as an exciting present. Vociferous popular debate, public policy, and popu...

With the insight and clarity that mark all of Petersen's writings, Against the Stream brings together reflections of an unconventional demographer....

What role did population change play in East Asia’s rapid economic development? A reliable answer to the question is important because the extraord...

The Women's War in the South: Recollections and Reflections of the American Civil War, edited by Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg, recounts...

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rerelea...

In this comprehensive analysis of thirty-five years of population change in the People's Republic of China, the author highlights China's shifting ...

What role did population change play in East Asia’s rapid economic development? A reliable answer to the question is important because the extraord...

The 20th-century demographic struggle for power translates itself into an inter-ethnic war of numbers. This book offers suggestions for structural ...

The 20th-century demographic struggle for power translates itself into an inter-ethnic war of numbers. This book offers suggestions for structural ...

This book deals with the process of the diffusion of cohabitation in Europe and discusses its impact upon fundamental changes in family formation. ...

As the leading edge of the 'Baby Boom' generation attains age 60, members of this unusually large cohort born 1946-66 are poised to redefine retire...

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to one of Japan's thorniest public policy issues: why are women increasingly forgoing motherhood? At ...