The Human Tide
Subtitle: How Population Shaped the Modern World
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: Mar 05, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781541788367
Description: "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 of the British Empire; the emergence of America as a superpower; the ebb and flow of global challenges from Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Soviet Russia. These are the headlines of history, but they cannot be properly grasped without understanding the role that population has played. The Human Tide shows how periods of rapid population transition--a phenomenon that first emerged in the British Isles but gradually spread across the globe--shaped the course of world history. Demography--the study of population--is the key to unlocking an understanding of the world we live in and how we got here."--Dust jacket flap.
Notes: Source title: The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World