Demography/Bibliography

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Caselli, Graziella, Jacques Vallin and Guillaume Wunsch, eds. Demography: Analysis and Synthesis (3 vol 2005), 2980pp; excerpt and text search
Coleman, David, and Roger Schofield, eds., The State of Population Theory: Forward from Malthus (1986)

Ellis, David R. and Steve H. Murdock. Applied Demography: An Introduction to Basic Concepts, Methods, and Data. 1991. online edition
Rowland, Donald T. Demographic Methods and Concepts 2003 ISBN 9780198752639
Shryock, Henry S.; and Jacob S. Siegel. The Methods and Materials of Demography, 2 vol 1976
Weeks, John R. Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues (10th ed. 2007)
Yaukey, David, Douglas L. Anderton and Jennifer Hickes Lundquist. Demography: The Study of Human Population. (3rd ed 2007) excerpt and text search

Cohen, Joel E. How Many People Can the Earth Support? (1995) online edition
D. E. C. Eversley. Social Theories of Fertility and the Malthusian Debate (1959). online edition
Geoffrey Gilbert, ed. Malthus: Critical Responses (1998), what critics in 19th said about Malthus' ideas
Susan Greenhalgh. "The Social Construction of Population Science: An Intellectual, Institutional, and Political History of Twentieth-Century Demography," Comparative Studies in Society and History, Volume 38, Issue 1 (Jan., 1996), 26-66. in JSTOR
Hauser, Philip M., and Otis Dudley Duncan, eds. The Study of Population: An Inventory and Appraisal. 1959. sumamry of field at mid-century
Malthus, Thomas. An Essay on the Principle of Population (1st ed 1798) (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) ed by Donald Winch 1992 ISBN 9780521429726
Spengler, Joseph J. France Faces Depopulation (2nd ed 1979)

Ansley J. Coale and Susan C. Watkins, eds. The Decline of Fertility in Europe, (1986)
Fogel, Robert W. The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World (2004)
Kertzer, David, and Peter Laslett, eds. Aging in the Past: Demography, Society, and Old Age (1995) complete text online
Reed, James. From Private Vice to Public Virtue: The Birth Control Movement and American Society Since 1830. 1978.
Riley, James C. Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History (2001)
Saito, Oasamu. "Historical Demography: Achievements and Prospects." Population Studies 1996 50(3): 537-553. Issn: 0032-4728 in Jstor

Davis, Kingsley. "The World Demographic Transition." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1945 237: 1-11. in JSTOR, classic article that introduced concept of transition
Gillis, John R.; Louise A. Tilly; and David Levine; eds. The European Experience of Declining Fertility, 1850-1970: The Quiet Revolution. 1992.
Szreter, Simon. "The Idea of Demographic Transition and the Study of Fertility: A Critical Intellectual History." Population and Development Review, 1993. 19:4, pp 659-701.

CIA World Factbook, 2007. online
Arthur Haupt and Thomas T. Kane. Population Handbook, (Population Reference Bureau: 5th ed 2004) online edition
Wendel, Helmut, and Christopher S Wendel. Vital Statistics of the United States Births, Life Expectancy, Deaths and Selected Health Data (2006)

Barrett, Richard E., Donald J. Bogue, and Douglas L. Anderton. The Population of the United States (3rd ed. 1997) 704pp text search