Originally published in 1980, this volume reviews the demographic patterns of fertility, marriage and mortality with reference to developed societies in the 19th and 20th centuries in Western Europe and North America. 

Originally published in 1988 and 1990, this book asks what positive lessons can be learned from some of the developing world’s success stories on population.

Originally published in 1972, this book illustrates why China’s population problems are complex. It discusses 20th Century phenomena such as the decline in China’s death rate and the possible effects of density pressure on migration, on China’s ethnic minorities and on foreign policy.

Originally published in 1995, this book confronts the contentious political issues on all sides of the population debate, including immigration, demographic competition, gender ratios, reproductive research and children’s rights. 

Originally published in 1924, and inevitably a product of the time in which it was published, the author assumes that people exercise their powers of reproduction near to capacity.

Originally published in 1973, this book is an introduction to the study of population history since the Industrial Revolution and focuses on the experience of England and Wales.