Cain / Paterson The Children of Eve

Population and Well-being in History
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-16962-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten, E-Book

The Children of Eve is the first book to bring togethergeneral material about population and well-being in a singlevolume. It presents a world history of demographic and economicchange that ranges broadly over time and space and which emphasizesthe commonality of human experience.
* The first book to put together material about population andwell-being in a single volume
* Emphasizes the formative population history of Europe and NorthAmerica over the years since the Middle Ages, and includesdiscussions of Asia and the southern hemisphere
* The authors successfully maintain the difficult balance ofaddressing complex issues in a style that doesn't over-simplify thesubject, whilst upholding an approach that is accessible to generalreaders and students
* Designed to work as both a stand alone text or a supplement totextbooks in any number of courses

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cain, Louis P.

Paterson, Donald G.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Initial Conditions
Chapter One: Overview
Chapter Two: The Historical Setting
Part II: Growth and Dispersal of the Human Population
Chapter Three: Mortality: The Fourth Horsemen
Chapter Four: The Fertility Transition
Chapter Five: Long Distance Migration
Chapter Six: Regional Migration
Part III: Choices and Their Consequence
Chapter Seven: The Changing Family
Chapter Eight: Health and Well-Being
Chapter Nine: Macroeconomic Effects of the Industrial Transition
Chapter Ten: Catastrophes
Part IV: Conclusions
Chapter Eleven: Conclusions
General and Frequently Referenced Sources

Über Autor(innen)

Louis P. Cain is Professor of Economics at Loyola UniversityChicago, Adjunct Professor of Economics at Northwestern University,Senior Investigator at the Center for Population Economics,University of Chicago, and Research Economist at the NationalBureau of Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. fromNorthwestern. With the late Jonathan Hughes, he is the authorof American Economic History, now in its 8thedition (2011). His research includes projects on urban mortality,urban sanitation, industrial development, and the economic historyof Chicago. He has served as a trustee of the EconomicHistory Association and the Business History Conference, and aschairman of the Board of Trustees of the Cliometric Society.
Donald G. Paterson is Professor Emeritus of Economics atthe University of British Columbia. He received his D.Phil from theUniversity of Sussex and held a post-doctoral fellowship at theUniversity of Cambridge. He is the author (with William L Marr) ofCanada: An Economic History (1980) and has published widelyin the areas of history of international investment, economichistory of natural resource use, history of US technical change,macro-economic history of Canada, and business history.
Cain and Paterson previously co-authored two articles on biasedtechnological change in The Journal of Economic History.