A population history of North America
By: edited by Michael R. Haines, Richard H. Steckel
Contributors: Haines, Michael R; Steckel, Richard H. 1944-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 736
Subjects: North America -- Population -- History
Description: "Professors Haines and Steckel bring together leading scholars to present an expansive population history of North America from pre-Columbian times to the present. Covering the populations of Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean, including two essays on the Amerindian population, this volume takes advantage of considerable recent progress in demographic history to offer timely, knowledgeable information in a nontechnical format.

A statistical appendix summarizes basic demographic measures over time for the United States, Canada, and Mexico."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Population history of native North Americans / Russell Thornton; title: Patterns of disease in early North American populations / Douglas H. Ubelaker; title: The population of the St. Lawrence Valley, 1608-1760 / Hubert Charbonneau ... [et al.]; title: The white population of the colonial United States, 1607-1790 / Henry A. Gemery; title: The African American population of the colonial United States / Lorena S. Walsh; title: The peopling of Mexico from origins to revolution / Robert McCaa; title: The white population of the United States, 1790-1920 / Michael R. Haines; title: The population of Canada in the nineteenth century / Marvin McInnis; title: The African American population of the United States, 1790-1920 / Richard H. Steckel; title: A population history of the Caribbean / Stanley L. Engerman; title: Canada's population in the twentieth century / Marvin McInnis; title: Mexico's demographic transformation : from 1920 to 1990 / Zadia M. Feliciano; title: Growth and composition of the American population in the twentieth century / Richard A. Easterlin