Title:	Demography
Authors:	PETER R. COX
Keywords:	Demography
Issue Date:	1998
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Description:	Although it is only about five years since the Fourth Edition of this book was published, the passage of events and the change of outlook they have wrought have created a need for a material revision of the contents; otherwise, the most recent information could not be presented as an effective comment on the theories expounded or in illustration of the methods described. About one-third of the text has been rewritten with this in mind. There has also been recently some general change of emphasis in demography towards the more political aspects of the subject, as a result of which the refinements of technical analysis assume rather less importance; this change finds its reflexion in a new order of the chapters: they are now grouped within the following main subdivisions:with a concluding section in which the past and future of the subject are surveyed. Material which was formerly spread over twenty-six chapters is now allocated to only twenty; but the coverage of topics is as before and the text as a whole is no shorter in length. The four new subdivisions embrace the contents of the following chapters in the Fourth Edition: 2—6; 7—9; 19—25; 10—17 respectively. The present chapter 1 fulfils the same functions as the previous one, while former chapters 18 and 26 are combined in the new concluding chapter 20. The gradual diminution of attention paid to the specific demographic problems of Britain, and the broadening of interest to a full international scale, which are features of the development of this book from one edition to the next in the past, have been continued in the transition to the Fifth Edition; there has been a further rebalancing, after which Britain now receives little more emphasis than any other single country and more attention than before is paid to the 'Third World'.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/54547
ISBN:	978-0-521-21003-4
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

Items in DSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.