Demography and nutrition : evidence from historical and contemporary populations /
This exciting and important book covers the impact on demography of the nutrition of populations, offering the view that the change from the hunter-gatherer to an agricultural life-style had a major impact on human demography, which still has repercussions today. Demography and Nutrition takes an in...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford ; Malden, MA :
Blackwell Science,
2002.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This exciting and important book covers the impact on demography of the nutrition of populations, offering the view that the change from the hunter-gatherer to an agricultural life-style had a major impact on human demography, which still has repercussions today. Demography and Nutrition takes an interdisciplinary approach, involving time-series analyses, mathematical modelling, aggregative analysis and family reconstitution as well as analysis of data series from Third World countries in the 20th Century. Contents include details and analysis of mortality oscillations, food supplies, famine. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 369 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-362) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1405123370 9781405123372 9780470774489 0470774487 1280199326 9781280199325 9786610199327 6610199329 0470709561 9780470709566 0470777451 9780470777459 |