Population Of Europe » (1st Edition)

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 Collège 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).

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 components 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 the present-day conditions of low mortality, negligible hunger and population stability. The author focuses on the determinants of epidemics and disease, and also the factors of climate, space and land and their impacts on food and energy supply. The book is accessibly written and translated for both the general reader and the student, and Professor Livi Bacci brings the human element to the forefront throughout, creating an appealing and compelling narrative for all readers interested in poulation history.