Population & Demography

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 has be...

Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population has for the past two centuries been a constant source of inspiration and debate for scholars working...

This book examines the basic mechanisms behind the modernization of demographic behaviour. The author has marshalled an impressive amount of statis...

The secret to happiness, longevity, and living on is through mentoring the next generation.In How to Live Forever, Encore.org founder and CEO Marc ...

Zygmunt Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust is a decisive text of intellectual reflection after Auschwitz, in which Bauman rejected the idea that ...

As one of South America’s larger capital cities, Lima, Peru, is remarkably understudied as a demographic and economic entity unto itself. In this i...

This handbook provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of African population dynamics, variations, causes and consequences, demonstrati...

Covers the long-term social, economic and political changes in Hungary from 1945 to 1998.

In pocket-sized, coded diaries, an upper middle-class American woman named Mary Poor recorded with small "x's" the occasions of sexual intercourse ...

International Migration: Prospects and Policies offers a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of global patterns of international migration and the pol...

Written by leading thinkers in the field, this text provides an in-depth analysis of the economic and policy issues associated with individual and ...

The Neolithic saw the spread of the first farmers, and the formation of settled villages throughout Europe. Traditional archaeology has interpreted...

Significant changes in New York City's Latino community have occurred since the first edition of Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition was...

The population of the modern world continues to grow at a rate unprecedented in human history. How are we to explain this massive increase in the n...

Population control requires that the birth rate equal to the death rate. If it is too low population will decline; if it is too high, population wi...

Part of the acclaimed Politics and Society series, Population and Political Theory brings together leading thinkers in the fields of philosophy, po...

This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award. We are living, learning, and teaching by questioning ...

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

Demographic Forecasting introduces new statistical tools that can greatly improve forecasts of population death rates. Mortality forecasting is use...

Early modern rulers believed that the more subjects over whom they ruled, the more powerful they would be. Putting this axiom into effect, Louis XI...

India is not only the world's largest and fiercely independent democracy, but also an emerging economic giant. But to date there has been no compre...

The field of political demography - the politics of population change - is dramatically underrepresented in political science. At a time when demog...

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