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Contents List of Figures viii List of Tables xii Preface xiv 1?The Space and Strategy of Demographic Growth 1 1?Humans and animals 1 2?Divide and multiply 5 3?Jacopo Bichi and Domenica Del Buono, Jean Guyon and Mathurine Robin 6 4?Reproduction and survival 9 5?The space of growth 17 6?Environmental constraints 20 7?A few figures 24 2?Demographic Growth: Between Choice and Constraint 29 1?Constraint, choice, adaptation 29 2?From hunters to farmers: the Neolithic demographic transition 31 3?Black Death and demographic decline in Europe 36 4?The tragedy of the American Indios: old microbes and new populations 5 Africa, American and the slave trade 42 6?The French Canadians: a demographic success story 48 7?Ireland and Japan: two islands, two histories 53 8?On the threshold of the contemporary world: China and Europe 57 3?Land, Labor, and Population 63 1?Diminishing returns and demographic growth 63 2?Historical confirmations 67 3?Demographic pressure and economic development 72 4?More on demographic pressure and development: examples from the Stone Age to the present day 75 5?Space, land, and development 79 6?Population size and prosperity 84 7?Increasing or decreasing returns? 87 4?Toward Order and Efficiency: The Recent Demography of Europe and the Developed World 90 1?From waste to economy 90 2?From disorder to order: the lengthening of life 95 3?From high to low fertility 100 4?European emigration: a unique phenomenon 107 5?A summing up: the results of the transition 113 6?Theoretical considerations on the relationship between demographic and economic growth 115 7?More on the relationship between demographic and economic growth: Empirical observations 119 5?The Populations of Poor Countries 128 1?An extraordinary phase 128 2?The conditions of survival 134 3?A brief geography of fertility 141 4?The conditions and prospects for fertility decline and demographic policy 147 5?India and China 154 6?Fertilia and Sterilia 161 7?Explaining a paradox 166 6?The Future 175 1?Population and self-regulation 175 2?The numbers of the future 1773 The North-South divide and international migration 4?On sustainability of extended survival 183 5?The moving limits 190 6?The emerging limits: Resources 194 7?The emerging limits: Environment 198 8?Calculations and values 202 Notes 206 Select Bibliography 239 Index 243
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Population -- History.