The Populations of Europe
Subtitle: A History (The Making of Europe)
Contributors: Ian Shaw (Translator)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: January 1, 2000
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780631218814
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); European studies; Population & demography; History - General History; History: World; Europe; Demography; Europe - General; EUROPE_POPULATION; Social Science / Demography; History; Population
First sentence: At the beginning of this past millennium the population of continental Europe - from the Urals to the Atlantic - numbered somewhere between 30 and 50 million; a modest figure for so vast a territory, roughly 10 million square kilometers, much of it well-suited to settlement and cultivation but still abundant in open and relatively unclaimed spaces.