This is the first full-scale one-volume survey of the
demographic history of the United States. From the arrival of
humans in the Western Hemisphere to the current century, Klein
analyzes the basic demographic trends in the growth of the
pre-conquest, colonial and national populations. He surveys the
origin and distribution of the Native Americans, the post-conquest
free and servile European and African colonial populations and the
variation in regional patterns of fertility and mortality to 1800.
He then explores trends in births, deaths, international and
internal migrations in the nineteenth century and compares them
with contemporary European developments. The profound impact of
historic declines in disease and mortality on the structure of the
late twentieth century population is explained. Finally the late
twentieth century changes in family structure, fertility and
mortality are evaluated for their influence on the evolution of the
national population for the 21st century.
目錄:
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, 1914–1945
6. The baby boom and changing family values, 1945–1980
7. A modern industrial society, 1980–2003