Herbert S. Klein

A Population History of the United States

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 588g
• ISBN-13: 9781107015982
• ISBN-10: 1107015987
• Artikelnr.: 35064183

Autorenporträt

Herbert S. Klein is the Gouverneur Morris Emeritus Professor of History, Columbia University, New York and Research Fellow and Curator at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, California. He is the author of numerous books, including The Atlantic Slave Trade (Cambridge, 1999) and A Concise History of Bolivia (Cambridge, 2003). He also co-authored, with Francisco Vidal Luna, Brazil Since 1980 (Cambridge, 2006) and Slavery in Brazil (Cambridge, 2009), and with Laird Bergad, Hispanics in the United States, 1980-2005 (Cambridge, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

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, 1914-45
6. Transitions: the baby boom and bust and the new new immigrants, 1945-70
7. A modern industrial society, 1970-2010.