At the XIst World Congress of Historical Sciences (CISH) in Stockholm 1960, an interdisciplinary International Commission for Historical Demography was created,

Concern about the size of the world’s population did not begin with the Baby Boomers. Overpopulation as a conceptual problem originated after World War I and

Professors Haines and Steckel bring together leading scholars to present an expansive population history of North America from pre-Columbian times to the presen

The generation into which each person is born, the demographic composition of that cohort, and its relation to those born at the same time in other places influ

This volume aims to provide inspiration for the future of historical demography. Prominent scholars were invited to reflect critically on where the discipline o