Children of Eve

The Children of Eve is the first book to bring together
general material about population and well-being in a single
volume. It presents a world history of demographic and economic
change that ranges broadly over time and space and which emphasizes
the commonality of human experience.

• The first book to put together material about population and
  well-being in a single volume

• Emphasizes the formative population history of Europe and North
  America over the years since the Middle Ages, and includes
  discussions of Asia and the southern hemisphere

• The authors successfully maintain the difficult balance of
  addressing complex issues in a style that doesn't over-simplify the
  subject, whilst upholding an approach that is accessible to general
  readers and students

• Designed to work as both a stand alone text or a supplement to
  textbooks in any number of courses

Auteur
Louis P. Cain is Professor of Economics at Loyola University Chicago, Adjunct Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, Senior Investigator at the Center for Population Economics, University of Chicago, and Research Economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern. With the late Jonathan Hughes, he is the author of American Economic History, now in its 8th edition (2011). His research includes projects on urban mortality, urban sanitation, industrial development, and the economic history of Chicago. He has served as a trustee of the Economic History Association and the Business History Conference, and as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Cliometric Society.

Donald G. Paterson is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of British Columbia. He received his D.Phil from the University of Sussex and held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge. He is the author (with William L Marr) of Canada: An Economic History (1980) and has published widely in the areas of history of international investment, economic history of natural resource use, history of US technical change, macro-economic history of Canada, and business history.

Cain and Paterson previously co-authored two articles on biased technological change in The Journal of Economic History.

Texte du rabat
The Children of Eve is the first single volume book to bring together general material on population issues, as it explores the subject of contemporary population in a historical context. The book presents a world history of economic and demographic change that ranges broadly over time and space, while simultaneously emphasizing the well-being of the population. By choosing a large canvas, the authors stress the commonality of human experience: that different people, at different times, and in varying circumstances have responded to similar economic forces in more or less the same way.

The book highlights the formative population history of Europe and North America over the years since the Middle Ages. Asia and the southern hemisphere are also discussed within the text. The authors have written in non-technical language and successfully maintain the difficult balance of addressing complex issues in a style that doesn't over-simplify the subject, whilst upholding an approach that is accessible to general readers and students. Throughout the text, definitions and short explanations of economic and demographic terminology are presented in separate boxes to enhance ease of use, and each chapter concludes with a bibliography and selected readings.

Résumé
The Children of Eve is the first book to bring together general material about population and well-being in a single volume. It presents a world history of demographic and economic change that ranges broadly over time and space and which emphasizes the commonality of human experience.

• The first book to put together material about population and well-being in a single volume
• Emphasizes the formative population history of Europe and North America over the years since the Middle Ages, and includes discussions of Asia and the southern hemisphere
• The authors successfully maintain the difficult balance of addressing complex issues in a style that doesn't over-simplify the subject, whilst upholding an approach that is accessible to general readers and students
• Designed to work as both a stand alone text or a supplement to textbooks in any number of courses

Contenu
List of Figures, Tables, and Appendices xi Preface xv

Acknowledgments xviii

Part One Initial Conditions 1

Chapter One Overview 3

1.1 Introduction 3

1.2 Human Origins 7

1.3 The 40 000 Years to 10 000 BC 9

1.4 The Last 12 000 Years 11

1.5 A Few Fundamentals of Population Growth 14

1.6 The Quality and Quantity of Life 15

1.7 The English Parson, Thomas Malthus 17

1.8 Measurement and Inference 19

1.9 The Census 22

A. A Nearly Modern Census 22

B. Modern Censuses 24

C. Some Problems of Early Modern Censuses 25

1.10 Models of Human Behavior 26

1.11 Outline 27

Chapter Two The Historical Setting 31

2.1 Introduction 31

2.2 The Demographic Transition 31

2.3 Structural Transition of the Economy 33

2.4 Long-Run Changes in Economic Well-Being 36

2.5 Net Replacement 40

2.6 Dependency and Participation 43

2.7 How Does the Demographic Transition End or Does It? 45

2.8 Variation 50

2.9 Globalization, Macroeconomics and Population 52

2.10 Institutional Change and Externalities 56

Part Two Growth and Dispersal of the Human Population 63

Chapter Three Mortality: The Fourth Horseman 65

3.1 What Do People Die From? 65

3.2 Infant and Child Mortality 70

3.3 The Probability of Death and Life Expectancy 73

3.4 Seasonal Pattern of Death 82

3.5 Seasonality and Longevity 84

3.6 Urban Mortality 85

3.7 The Mortality Transition: Crude Death Rates 89

Chapter Four The Fertility Transition 98

4.1 The Fertility Transition 98

4.2 The Queen and the Anabaptists 100

4.3 Strategic Choice 102

4.4 When to Marry 106

4.5 The Never Married 111

4.6 Illegitimacy 114

4.7 The Seasonal Pattern of Birth 115

4.8 Disruptions 117

4.9 The Fertility Transition: Crude Birth Rates 118

4.10 Farms and Towns 123

Chapter Five Long Distance Migration 132

5.1 The Migratory Instinct 132

5.2 Who's In and Who's Out 136

5.3 Migration of the Unfree 138

A. Slaves 138

B. Convicts and Indentured Servants 141

C. Child Migrants 144

5.4 The Atlantic: Waves of Immigration 145

5.5 Unbalanced Cargoes 150

5.6 Information and Advertising 152

5.7 Remittances: Then and Now 153

5.8 There and Back Again Reverse Migrations 155

5.9 Diaspora 158

A. The Chinese 158

B. The Irish 162

C. The Jews 164

5.10 The Barriers Go Up 166

5.11 The Walker Thesis, Displacement and Savings 168

5.12 A Final Word on Long Distance Migration 169

Chapter Six Regional Migration 181

6.1 Introduction 181

6.2 The US Westward Movement and Other Frontiers 183

6.3 Urbanization and Industrial Change 188

6.4 The Rural-Urban Shift 191

6.5 Town and Farm and the Changing Economic Role of Children 195

6.6 The Great Black Migration in the US 195

6.7 Declining Regions: Dust Bowls and Yorkshire Coal Mines 198

6.8 Inter-Urban Migration 199

6.9 Migration: In the Neighborhood 200

A. Scotland England 200

B. Canada USA 201

6.10 The Undocumented 203

6.11 Convergence 205

6.12 Summary of Part Two Putting It All Together 207

Part Three Choices and Their Consequences 217

Chapter Seven The Changing Family 219

7.1 Introduction 219

7.2 Courtship and Marriage 221

7.3 Household and Family Size 225

7.4 Child Labor 228

7.5 Family Connections: Networks 234 7.6 Marit...