Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- Chapter 1 The Space and Strategy of Demographic Growth -- 1.1 Humans and Animals -- 1.2 Divide and Multiply -- 1.3 Jacopo Bichi and Domenica Del Buono, Jean Guyon, and Mathurine Robin -- 1.4 Reproduction and...

The space and strategy of demographic growth -- Demographic growth : between choice and constraint -- Land, labor, and population -- Toward order and efficiency : the recent demography of Europe and the developed world -- The populations of poor countries -- The future

Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Malthus's Perspective -- 1 New Malthusian Perspectives -- I Comparative Geographies -- 2 Living Standards and Economic Stress -- 3 Economic Stress and Mortality -- 4 Family and Community -- 5 Society and Mortality -- II...