This large-scale comparative endeavor, complete in two volumes,
reflects increasing concern with the population factor in economic
and social change worldwide. Demographers, on their side, have been
focusing on history. In response to this, "Population in History"
represents the work of two practitioners that have begun to work
together, using their combined approaches in an attempt to assess
and account for population growth experienced by the West since the
seventeenth century.
There is a long record of interest in the history of population.
But the interest now displayed is likely to be both more persistent
and far more fruitful in its consequences. New studies have been
initiated in many countries. And because the studies are more
informed and systematic than many of those of earlier periods, they
are already provoking the further spread of research. A much more
positive part is now also being played by national and
international associations of historians and demographers. It is
not unlikely that, within the next fifteen or twenty years, the
main outlines of population change in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries will be firmly established for much of
Europe.
Previous research has tended to appear in specialist journals
and academic publications. This volume is intended to provide a
more easily accessible publication. It has been thought appropriate
to include some earlier work, both because of its intrinsic
interest and because it provided the background and part of the
stimulus to the later research. Of the twenty-seven contributions
to this outstanding volume, seven are unabridged reprints of
earlier work; the remaining contributions are either entirely new
or represent substantial revisions of work published elsewhere.
"D. V. Glass" was professor of sociology at the University of
London. At the time of his death he was a fellow of the Royal
Society and a fellow of the British Academy as well as a foreign
associate of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. Most of his
later work and research was focused on demography.
"D. E. C. Eversley" was reader in social history at the
University of Birmingham. Some of the books he co-authored include
"Introduction to English Demography from the Sixteenth to the
Nineteenth Century" and "Social Theories of Fertility and The
Malthusian Debate."
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