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The History of Human Populations: Migration, Urbanization, and Structural Change (2) - Couverture rigide

Harris, P. M. G.

 
9780275971915: The History of Human Populations: Migration, Urbanization, and Structural Change (2)
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0275971910 ISBN 13 : 9780275971915
Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Building upon models set forth in Volume I of this work, Harris turns his attention to populations on the move. Through examples from literature on migration, the Atlantic slave trade and slave demography, and urbanization, this study demonstrates how all types of migration—free and forced, long-distance and local—build up and are then absorbed into populations according to the same patterns that characterize populations in general. What causes these few closely related trends to reappear, Harris argues, is the way structures of populations alter, according to a standard absorption of these migrations, and react to other events via changes in births, deaths, and composition by age and sex.

Harris finds that something fundamental in the process of demographic renewal consistently imprints a few common shapes upon many kinds of demographic, as well as social and economic, developments. Fresh perspectives on the business of the slave trade and the much-discussed modern shifts from agriculture into other employments, and from countryside to town or city, illustrate how ubiquitously and how fundamentally demographically generated trends shape social and economic movements. A future volume will identify and explain the origins of such ever-present patterns of change in the dynamics of fertility, mortality, and demographic renewal.

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À propos de l'auteur

P.M.G. HARRIS is an independent scholar and adjunct to the Department of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

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Éditeur
Praeger Publishers Inc
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0275971910
ISBN 13 
9780275971915
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
584
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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