The Children of Eve is the first book to bring together
general material about population and well-being in a single
volume. It presents a world history of demographic and economic
change that ranges broadly over time and space and which emphasizes
the commonality of human experience.
* The first book to put together material about population and
well-being in a single volume
* Emphasizes the formative population history of Europe and North
America over the years since the Middle Ages, and includes
discussions of Asia and the southern hemisphere
* The authors successfully maintain the difficult balance of
addressing complex issues in a style that doesn’t over-simplify the
subject, whilst upholding an approach that is accessible to general
readers and students
* Designed to work as both a stand alone text or a supplement to
textbooks in any number of courses
Inhoudsopgave
Part I: Initial Conditions
Chapter One: Overview
Chapter Two: The Historical Setting
Part II: Growth and Dispersal of the Human Population
Chapter Three: Mortality: The Fourth Horsemen
Chapter Four: The Fertility Transition
Chapter Five: Long Distance Migration
Chapter Six: Regional Migration
Part III: Choices and Their Consequence
Chapter Seven: The Changing Family
Chapter Eight: Health and Well-Being
Chapter Nine: Macroeconomic Effects of the Industrial Transition
Chapter Ten: Catastrophes
Part IV: Conclusions
Chapter Eleven: Conclusions
General and Frequently Referenced Sources
Over de auteur
Louis P. Cain is Professor of Economics at Loyola University
Chicago, Adjunct Professor of Economics at Northwestern University,
Senior Investigator at the Center for Population Economics,
University of Chicago, and Research Economist at the National
Bureau of Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. from
Northwestern. With the late Jonathan Hughes, he is the author
of American Economic History, now in its 8th
edition (2011). His research includes projects on urban mortality,
urban sanitation, industrial development, and the economic history
of Chicago. He has served as a trustee of the Economic
History Association and the Business History Conference, and as
chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Cliometric Society.
Donald G. Paterson is Professor Emeritus of Economics at
the University of British Columbia. He received his D.Phil from the
University of Sussex and held a post-doctoral fellowship at the
University of Cambridge. He is the author (with William L Marr) of
Canada: An Economic History (1980) and has published widely
in the areas of history of international investment, economic
history of natural resource use, history of US technical change,
macro-economic history of Canada, and business history.
Cain and Paterson previously co-authored two articles on biased
technological change in The Journal of Economic History.
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