A Population History of North AmericaMichael R. Haines, Richard H. Steckel Cambridge University Press, 15.08.2000 - 736 Seiten Professors Haines and Steckel bring together leading scholars to present an expansive population history of North America from pre-Columbian times to the present. Covering the populations of Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean, including two essays on the Amerindian population, this volume takes advantage of considerable recent progress in demographic history to offer timely, knowlegeable information in a non-technical format. A statistical appendix summarizes basic demographic measures over time for the United States, Canada, and Mexico. |
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African American agricultural American Indian American population areas Atlantic Slave Trade average baby boom Bioarchaeology black population British California Canada Canada's population Canadian Caribbean Carolina census Chesapeake child/woman ratios childbearing cities colonies crude birth rate decade demographic disease early Economic History eighteenth century emigration Engerman epidemic estimates Europe European evidence factors females Figure Fogel free blacks French immigration infant mortality Journal labor Laurentian Valley levels marital fertility marriage Mexican Mexico Mexico City migration million Montreal mortality rates Native American natural increase nineteenth century North America Ontario Paleopathology patterns period plantation Población population growth population history porotic hyperostosis prehistoric proportion provinces Quebec Quebec City region rural settlement seventeenth skeletal Slave Trade Slavery smallpox Social sources South South Carolina southern Statistics Steckel Table tion trends tuberculosis twentieth century ulation United University Press urban West white population women World York
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