Population History of North America

Klappentext Professors Haines and Steckel bring together leading scholars to present a population history of North America. Zusammenfassung Professors Haines and Steckel bring together leading scholars to present an expansive population history of North America from pre-Columbian to present times. Covering Canada! the United States! Mexico! and the Caribbean! this volume takes advantage of considerable recent progress in demographic history to offer timely information in a non-technical format. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel; 2. Population history of North American Indians Russell Thornton; 3. Patterns of disease in early North American populations Douglas H. Ubelaker; 4. The population of New France and Quebec 1608-1790 Hubert Charbonneau, Bertrand Desjardins, and Jacques Legare; 5. The white population of the colonial United States 1607-1790 Hank Gemery; 6. The African-American population of the Colonial United States Lorena Walsh; 7. The population of Mexico from its origins to the Revolution of 1910 Robert McCaa; 8. The White Population of the United States, 1790-1920 Michael R. Haines; 9. Canada in the nineteenth century Marvin McInnis; 10. The African-American population of the United States, 1790-1920 Richard H. Steckel; 11. A population history of the Caribbean Stanley L. Engerman; 12. Canada in the twentieth century Marvin McInnis; 13. Mexico's demographic expansion: 1920 to 1990 Zadia Feliciano; 14. The population of the United States since 1920 Richard Easterlin; 15. Concluding comments Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel.

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• Authors: Michael R. Haines, Michael R. (Colgate University Haines, Michael R. Steckel Haines, Richard H. Steckel
• Assisted by: Michael R. Haines (Editor), Haines Michael R. (Editor), Richard H. Steckel (Editor), Steckel Richard H. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2000
• EAN: 9780521496667
• ISBN: 978-0-521-49666-7
• No. of pages: 762
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, HISTORY / United States / General, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Population & demography, Population and Demography