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| List of Figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Space and Strategy of Demographic Growth | |
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| Humans and Animals | |
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| Divide and Multiply | |
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| Jacopo Bichi and Domenica Del Buono, Jean Guyon and Mathurine Robin | |
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| Reproduction and Survival | |
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| The Space of Growth | |
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| Environmental Constraints | |
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| A Few Figures | |
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| Notes | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Demographic Growth: Between Choice and Constraint | |
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| Constraint, Choice, Adaptation | |
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| From Hunters to Farmers: The Neolithic Demographic Transition | |
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| Black Death and Demographic Decline in Europe | |
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| The Tragedy of the American Indios: Old Microbes and New Populations | |
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| Africa, America, and the Slave Trade | |
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| The French Canadians: A Demographic Success Story | |
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| Ireland and Japan: Two Islands, Two Histories | |
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| On the Threshold of the Contemporary World: China and Europe | |
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| Notes | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Land, Labor, and Population | |
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| Diminishing Returns and Demographic Growth | |
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| Historical Confirmations | |
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| Demographic Pressure and Economic Development | |
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| More on Demographic Pressure and Development: Examples from the Stone Age to the Present Day | |
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| Space, Land, and Development | |
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| Population Size and Prosperity | |
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| Increasing or Decreasing Returns? 108 Notes 109 Further Reading | |
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| Toward Order and Efficiency: The Recent Demography of Europe and the Developed World | |
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| From Waste to Economy | |
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| From Disorder to Order: The Lengthening of Life | |
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| From High to Low Fertility | |
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| European Emigration: A Unique Phenomenon | |
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| A Summing Up: The Results of the Transition | |
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| Theoretical Considerations on the Relationship between Demographic and Economic Growth | |
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| More on the Relationship between Demographic and Economic Growth: Empirical Observations 146 Notes 153 Further Reading | |
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| The Populations of Poor Countries | |
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| An Extraordinary Phase | |
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| The Conditions of Survival | |
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| A Brief Geography of Fertility | |
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| The Conditions and Prospects for Fertility Decline and Demographic Policy | |
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| India and China | |
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| Fertilia and Sterilia | |
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| Explaining a Paradox 198 Notes 205 Further Reading | |
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| The Future 214 1 Population and Self-Regulation | |
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| The Numbers of the Future | |
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| The North-South Divide and International Migration | |
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| On Sustainability of Extended Survival | |
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| The Moving Limits | |
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| The Emerging Limits | |
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| The Emerging Limits: Non-Renewable Resources and Food | |
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| The Emerging Limits: Space and Environment | |
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| Calculations and Values | |
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| Notes | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Major Scientific Journals for Further Reading | |
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| Index | |