Demographic Transition TheoryThis book has a strong theoretical focus and is unique in addressing both mortality and fertility over the full span of human history. It examines the demographic transition in the change in the human condition from high mortality and high fertility to low mortality and low fertility. It asks if fluctuating populations is a new phenomenon, or if there has long been an inherent tendency in Man to maximize survival and to control family size. |
Contents
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Pretransitional population control and equilibrium | 23 |
Was there a Neolithic mortality crisis? | 51 |
Population intensification theory | 71 |
An update | 89 |
Was there an ancient | 111 |
Family size control by infanticide in the great agrarian | 131 |
Transmuting the industrial revolution into mortality decline | 157 |
An examination | 181 |
Regional paths to fertility transition | 217 |
The globalization of fertility behavior | 249 |
Social upheaval and fertility decline | 273 |
A long view | 301 |
The great mortality crises | 387 |
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