This large-scale comparative endeavor, complete in two volumes, reflects increasing concern with the population factor in economic and social change worldwide.

In this essay, the mechanisms of biological, social and cultural nature linking subsistence, mortality and population are discussed.

Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798. He predicted

The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing contains over 800 entries ranging from Lord Acton and Anna Comnena to Howard Zinn and from Herodotus to Si

The first major study of population size and its tremendous importance to the character and quality of society, this classic examines the tendency of human numb