The Population of Europe

This book presents the reader with a fascinating history of the inter-relationships between population, land, resources, and disease in Europe. Professor Livi Bacci integrates the key component of culture to provide a vivid social and narrative history from the first peopling of Europe through centuries of famine, hunger and premature death, up to present-day low mortality, negligible hunger and population stability. The author focuses on the determinants of epidemics and disease and also on the factors of climate, space and land and their impacts on food and energy supply. The book is accessibly written and translated for the student and general reader. Throughout the book, Professor Livi Bacci brings the human element to the forefront of population history creating an appealing narrative for all interested readers of this subject.

Massimo Livi Bacci is Professor of Demography at the University of Florence. From 1989 to 1993 he was President of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. He has taught or held research fellowships at universities all over the world, including the CollFge de France, the Colegio de Mexico, Princeton University, University of California at Berkeley, and Brown University. His previous books include A Concise History of World Population (Blackwell, 2nd edition 1996).
Cynthia and Carl Ipsen live in Bloomington, Indiana. Carl Ipsen has also published Dictating Demography: The Problem of Population in Fascist Italy (1996).

List of Tables

vii

List of Figures

ix

Series Editor's Preface

xi

Numbers

1

(17)

Factors of constraint and factors of choice

1

(4)

A millennium of demographic development

5

(7)

Slow change in old regime societies

12

(4)

Interpretive choices

16

(2)

Space

18

(22)

Geography and environment

18

(3)

The conquest of space before the Black Death

21

(7)

Again eastward and southward

28

(2)

Settlement intensification and land reclamation

30

(5)

Consolidation

35

(5)

Food

40

(21)

Population and nutrition

40

(2)

Nutrition, infection, and mortality

42

(3)

Bread and its accompaniments

45

(6)

Famine and hunger

51

(5)

Long-term nutrition and mortality

56

(3)

Paradoxes and reality

59

(2)

Microbes and Disease

61

(30)

Lives on the brink

61

(3)

A World in motion

64

(6)

The plague: a four-handed game

70

(5)

The final match

75

(5)

Demographic losses

80

(4)

Other factors and the road to normality

84

(7)

Systems

91

(35)

Demographic systems

91

(4)

England, France, and Germany

95

(4)

Marriage

99

(8)

Fertility

107

(5)

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