A Concise History of World Population

Bacci, Massimo Livi

ISBN 10: 0631204555 / ISBN 13: 9780631204558

Published by Wiley-Blackwell (edition 2), 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Concise History of World Population
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (edition 2)
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631204555
• ISBN 13: 9780631204558
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

This book describes and explains the history of human population. It examines the changing patterns of its growth, and the effects upon it of migrations, wars, disease, technology and culture.

About the Author

Massimo Livi-Bacci is Professor of Demography at the University of Florence. From 1989 to 1993 he was President of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. He has published extensively on the history of population and on demography, and has taught or held research fellowships at universities all over the world, including the Collège de France, the Colegio de Mexico, Princeton University, University of California at Berkeley, and Brown University. In Italy he is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and of the Committee of Enquiry on poverty.

Carl Ipsen is an assistant professor of History and West European Studies at Indiana University. He has recently published Dictating Demography: the Problem of Population in Fascist History.