A Population History of the United States

ISBN-13: 9781107613621 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 300 str.

Herbert S Klein

Opis

This is a fully-updated version of the first full-scale, one-volume survey of the demographic history of the United States from preconquest to the present day.

Recenzje

'This succinct but comprehensive survey of U.S. population history deftly and insightful integrates the wide-ranging scholarship of the last several decades.' Robert William Fogel, University of Chicago and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1993

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Paleo-Indians, Europeans, and the settlement of America; 2. Colonization and settlement of North America; 3. The Early Republic to 1860; 4. The creation of an industrial and urban society, 1860–1914; 5. The evolution of a modern population, 1914–45; 6. Transitions: the baby boom and bust and the new new immigrants, 1945–70; 7. A modern industrial society, 1970–2010.