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A population history of the United States /
This is the first full-scale one-volume survey of the demographic history of the United States. From the arrival of humans in the Western Hemisphere to the current century, Klein analyzes the basic demographic trends in the growth of the pre-conquest, colonial and national populations. He surveys th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This is the first full-scale one-volume survey of the demographic history of the United States. From the arrival of humans in the Western Hemisphere to the current century, Klein analyzes the basic demographic trends in the growth of the pre-conquest, colonial and national populations. He surveys the origin and distribution of the Native Americans, the post-conquest free and servile European and African colonial populations and the variation in regional patterns of fertility and mortality to 1800. He then explores trends in births, deaths, international and internal migrations in the nineteenth century and compares them with contemporary European developments. The profound impact of historic declines in disease and mortality on the structure of the late twentieth century population is explained. Finally the late twentieth century changes in family structure, fertility and mortality are evaluated for their influence on the evolution of the national population for the 21st century. |
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| Notas: | Title from e-book title screen (viewed Oct. 16, 2007). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 300 pages : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511185944 9780511185946 0511185111 9780511185113 0511187785 9780511187780 9780521782685 0521782686 9780521788106 0521788102 1280458232 9781280458231 9780511616631 0511616635 0511302835 9780511302831 0511186851 9780511186851 |