Title Page ; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgment; Chapter 1 The Space and Strategy of Demographic Growth; 1.1 Humans and Animals; 1.2 Divide and Multiply; 1.3 Jacopo Bichi and Domenica Del Buono, Jean Guyon, and Mathurine Robin; 1.4 Reproduction and Survival; 1.4.1 The frequency of births; 1.4.2 The fecund period used for reproduction; 1.5 The Space of Growth; 1.6 Environmental Constraints; 1.7 A Few Figures; Notes; Further Reading; Chapter 2 Demographic Growth: Between Choice and Constraint; 2.1 Constraint, Choice, Adaptation.

2.2 From Hunters to Farmers: The Neolithic Demographic Transition2.3 Black Death and Demographic Decline in Europe; 2.4 The Tragedy of the American Indios: Old Microbes and New Populations; 2.5 Africa, America, and the Slave Trade; 2.6 The French Canadians: A Demographic Success Story; 2.7 Ireland and Japan: Two Islands, Two Histories; 2.8 On the Threshold of the Contemporary World: China and Europe; Notes; Further Reading; Chapter 3 Land, Labor, and Population; 3.1 Diminishing Returns and Demographic Growth; 3.2 Historical Confirmations; 3.3 Demographic Pressure and Economic Development.

3.4 More on Demographic Pressure and Development: Examples from the Stone Age to the Present Day3.5 Space, Land, and Development; 3.5.1 The occupation of uninhabited or sparsely populated regions; 3.5.2 Transformation and land reclamation; 3.5.3 External expansion; 3.6 Population Size and Prosperity; 3.7 Increasing or Decreasing Returns?; Notes; Further Reading; Chapter 4 Toward Order and Efficiency: The Recent Demography of Europe and the Developed World; 4.1 From Waste to Economy; 4.2 From Disorder to Order: The Lengthening of Life; 4.3 From High to Low Fertility.

4.4 European Emigration: A Unique Phenomenon4.5 A Summing Up: The Results of the Transition; 4.6 Theoretical Considerations on the Relationship between Demographic and Economic Growth; 4.6.1 Purely demographic factors; 4.6.2 Factors of Scale and Dimensional Factors in General; 4.6.3 The Stock of Knowledge and Technological Progress; 4.7 More on the Relationship between Demographic and Economic Growth: Empirical Observations; Notes; Further Reading; Chapter 5 The Populations of Poor Countries; 5.1 An Extraordinary Phase; 5.2 The Conditions of Survival; 5.3 A Brief Geography of Fertility.

5.4 The Conditions and Prospects for Fertility Decline and Demographic Policy5.5 India and China; 5.6 Fertilia and Sterilia; 5.7 Explaining a Paradox; Notes; Further Reading; Chapter 6 The Future; 6.1 Population and Self-Regulation; 6.2 The Numbers of the Future; 6.3 The North-South Divide and International Migration; 6.3.1 Demographic Inequalities; 6.3.2 Economic Inequalities; 6.3.3 Migration Policies; 6.3.4 Geography and Migratory Systems; 6.3.5 Climate Change and Environment; 6.4 On Sustainability of Extended Survival; 6.4.1 Biological Sustainability.