A population history of the United States
By: Herbert S. Klein
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781107015982
Subjects: HISTORY / United States / General; Population; History
Description: "This is a fully-updated version of the first full-scale, one-volume survey of the demographic history of the United States from preconquest to the present day"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 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. Transitions: the baby boom and bust and the new new immigrants, 1945-1970; 7. A modern industrial society, 1970-2010.