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Informationen zum Autor Massimo Livi Bacci is Professor of Demography at the University of Florence. From 1989 to 1993 he was President of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. He has taught or held research fellowships at universities all over the world! including the College de France! the Colegio de Mexico! Princeton University! University of California at Berkeley! and Brown University. His previous books include "A Concise History of World Population "(Blackwell! 2nd edition 1996).Cynthia and Carl Ipsen live in Bloomington! Indiana. Carl Ipsen has also published "Dictating Demography: The Problem of Population in Fascist Italy" (1996). Klappentext This book presents the reader with a fascinating history of the inter-relationships between population, land, resources, and disease in Europe. Professor Livi Bacci integrates the key component of culture to provide a vivid social and narrative history from the first peopling of Europe through centuries of famine, hunger and premature death, up to present-day low mortality, negligible hunger and population stability. The author focuses on the determinants of epidemics and disease and also on the factors of climate, space and land and their impacts on food and energy supply. The book is accessibly written and translated for the student and general reader. Throughout the book, Professor Livi Bacci brings the human element to the forefront of population history creating an appealing narrative for all interested readers of this subject. Zusammenfassung This text describes the historical interrelationships in Europe between population! land! resources! and disease. By integrating the key component of culture the author provides a social and narrative history! from the first peopling of Europe to the end of the 20th century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Jacques Le Goff. Part I: Numbers: 1. Factors of constraint and factors of choice. 2. A millenium of demographic development. 3. Slow change in old regime societies. 4. Interpretive choices. Part II: Space: 5. Geography and environment. 6. The conquest of space before the Black Death. 7. Again eastward and southward. 8. Settlement intensification and land reclamation . 9. Consolidation. Part III: Food: 10. Population and nutrition. 11. Nutrition! infection! and mortality. 12. Bread and its accompaniments. 13. Famine and hunger. 14. Long-term nutrition and mortality. 15. Paradoxes and reality Part IV: Microbes and Disease: 16. Lives on the brink. 17. A world in motion. 18. The plague: a four-handed game. 19. The final match. 20. Demographic losses. 21. Other factors and the road to normalcy. Part V: Systems: 22. Demographic systems. 23. England! France! and Germany. 24. Marriage. 25. Fertility. 26. More on infant mortality. 27. Migration. 28. Equilibrium and transformations. Part VI: The Great Transformation (1800-1914): 29. A frame of reference. 30. Demographic expansion: numbers and interpretations. 31. Two months per year: increasing life expectancy. 32. Infant mortality. 33. The advent of birth control. 34. Outside of Europe. Part VII: The End of a Cycle: 35. Demography in the twentieth century: mortality and fertility. 36. Demography in the twentieth century: migration! structures! models. 37. Politics. 38. Economics. 39. Values. Index. ...
