At the XIst World Congress of Historical Sciences (CISH) in Stockholm 1960, an interdisciplinary International Commission for Historical Demography was created,

Concern about the size of the world’s population did not begin with the Baby Boomers. Overpopulation as a conceptual problem originated after World War I and

Professors Haines and Steckel bring together leading scholars to present an expansive population history of North America from pre-Columbian times to the presen

Building the Population Bomb carefully examines how the rise of the world's human population came to be understood as problematic by scientists and governments

A dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires The rise and fall