Front cover image for A population history of North America

A population history of North America

"Professors Haines and Steckel bring together leading scholars to present an expansive population history of North America from pre-Columbian times to the present. Covering the populations of Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean, including two essays on the Amerindian population, this volume takes advantage of considerable recent progress in demographic history to offer timely, knowledgeable information in a nontechnical format. A statistical appendix summarizes basic demographic measures over time for the United States, Canada, and Mexico."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2000
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2000
History
xix, 736 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780521496667, 0521496667
41118518
1. Introduction Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel; 2. Population history of North American Indians Russell Thornton; 3. Patterns of disease in early North American populations Douglas H. Ubelaker; 4. The population of New France and Quebec 1608–1790 Hubert Charbonneau, Bertrand Desjardins, and Jacques Legare; 5. The white population of the colonial United States 1607–1790 Hank Gemery; 6. The African-American population of the Colonial United States Lorena Walsh; 7. The population of Mexico from its origins to the Revolution of 1910 Robert McCaa; 8. The White Population of the United States, 1790–1920 Michael R. Haines; 9. Canada in the nineteenth century Marvin McInnis; 10. The African-American population of the United States, 1790–1920 Richard H. Steckel; 11. A population history of the Caribbean Stanley L. Engerman; 12. Canada in the twentieth century Marvin McInnis; 13. Mexico's demographic expansion: 1920 to 1990 Zadia Feliciano; 14. The population of the United States since 1920 Richard Easterlin; 15. Concluding comments Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel.