Population History of the United States

Informationen zum Autor Herbert S. Klein is the Gouverneur Morris Emeritus Professor of History, Columbia University, New York and Research Fellow and Curator at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, California. He is the author of numerous books, including The Atlantic Slave Trade (Cambridge, 1999) and A Concise History of Bolivia (Cambridge, 2003). He also co-authored, with Francisco Vidal Luna, Brazil Since 1980 (Cambridge, 2006) and Slavery in Brazil (Cambridge, 2009), and with Laird Bergad, Hispanics in the United States, 1980–2005 (Cambridge, 2010). Klappentext This is a fully-updated version of the first full-scale, one-volume survey of the demographic history of the United States from preconquest to the present day. Zusammenfassung The first full-scale! one-volume survey of the demographic history of the United States has been fully updated here. From the arrival of humans in the Western Hemisphere to the current century! Klein analyses the basic demographic trends in the growth of the pre-conquest! colonial and national populations. This updated edition incorporates recent research! including data from the 2010 census. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Paleo-Indians, Europeans, and the settlement of America; 2. Colonization and settlement of North America; 3. The Early Republic to 1860; 4. The creation of an industrial and urban society, 1860-1914; 5. The evolution of a modern population, 1914-45; 6. Transitions: the baby boom and bust and the new new immigrants, 1945-70; 7. A modern industrial society, 1970-2010.

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• Authors: Herbert S. Klein, Herbert S. (Stanford University Klein, Klein Herbert S.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.09.2012
• EAN: 9781107613621
• ISBN: 978-1-107-61362-1
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Population & demography, Population and Demography