Demographic history of Europe: Bachchi Livi

Massimo Livi Bachchi, professor of Florentine University, Senator, President of the World Demographs Association, in this book traces the evolution of the population of Europe, starting from the XI century. n. e. – From the earliest times about which there are reliable data. The author analyzes the main reasons that have determined the periods of demographic growth, the decline and the resumption of the growth of the continent population over the past thousand years: natural and food conditions, plague epidemics and cholera, wars, migration, change in relations, progress of medicine. Demographic development appears before the reader as the history of the continuous confrontation of the human community with limiting factors – natural and anthropogenic.
And only in the XIX century. In this confrontation, radical changes occur: the old demographic order, the main features of which were early mortality and large families, is replaced in Europe with a new, characterized by low birth rate and greater life expectancy. But …

Author
Livi Bachchi Massimo
Editor
Beltran Victor
Translator
Mirolyubova Anastasia
Publisher
Alexandria, 2010
Series
The formation of Europe