This large-scale comparative endeavor, complete in two volumes, reflects increasing concern with the population factor in economic and social change worldwide. Demographers, on their side, have been focusing on history. In response to this, Population in History represents the work of two practitioners that have begun to work together, using their combined approaches in an attempt to assess and account for population growth experienced by the West since the seventeenth century.
There is a long record of interest in the history of population. But the interest now displayed is...
This large-scale comparative endeavor, complete in two volumes, reflects increasing concern with the population factor in economic and social chang...
This large-scale comparative endeavor, complete in two volumes, reflects increasing concern with the population factor in economic and social change worldwide. Demographers, on their side, have been focusing on history. In response to this, Population in History represents the work of two practitioners that have begun to work together, using their combined approaches in an attempt to assess and account for population growth experienced by the West since the seventeenth century.
There is a long record of interest in the history of population. But the interest now displayed is...
This large-scale comparative endeavor, complete in two volumes, reflects increasing concern with the population factor in economic and social chang...
Professor Hofstee has collected together, in compact and highly readable form, some of the most important conclusions so far reached in the study of selective aspects of internal and external migration. Of still greater value, however, than this sum mary of findings, and more stimulating to those of us who are directly concerned with demographic research, are Professor Hofstee's comments on the undocumented hypotheses with which the literature of migration abounds, and his suggestions concern ing the kinds of questions to which objective answers are needed if effective progress is to be made...
Professor Hofstee has collected together, in compact and highly readable form, some of the most important conclusions so far reached in the study of s...
