The British census plays an unquestioned role in governance today, and the recent digitization of nineteenth century census data has allowed millions of amateur and professional researchers to visualize their national and familial past. This study tells the tangled story of how the census took shape over the early decades of its existence, developing from a simple counting of households during the Napoleonic Wars into a centralized undertaking that involved the governmental and intellectual luminaries of Victorian Britain. Along the way, the census intertwined with the pressing questions of the day, including Malthusianism, industrialization, political representation, Irish immigration, women’s employment, reproduction, and empire. The book explores the hotly disputed process by which the census was created and developed and examines how a wide cast of characters, including statisticians, novelists, national and local officials, political and social reformers, and journalists responded to and used the idea of a census. It shows that the act of describing British society in statistical terms was also an act of contestation.

The book details population changes in every region of the planet from 400 BC to 1978 AD. McEvedy and Jones used seventy line graphs and accompanying commentary text to describe population changes in seventy regions. The only negative aspect of this book is that the authors estimates of pre-European, Native American populations are considerably lower than most other estimates and seem somewhat outdated. While many books describe population changes, few cover such a huge breadth of space and time and few give so much information so directly. This book is much appreciated and other books like this would certainly be welcome.

Vol. 2 : Denmark to Kyrgyzstan. - 647 p.

Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales's disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations. His investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil, Thailand, Pakistan, and India reveals the tragic emergence of a "new slavery," one intricately linked to the global economy. The new slaves are not a long-term investment as was true with older forms of slavery, explains Bales. Instead, they are cheap, require little care, and are disposable. Three interrelated factors have helped create the new slavery. The enormous population explosion over the past three decades has flooded the world's labor markets with millions of impoverished, desperate people. The revolution of economic globalization and modernized agriculture has dispossessed poor farmers, making them and their families ready targets for enslavement. And rapid economic change in developing countries has bred corruption and violence, destroying social rules that might once have protected the most vulnerable individuals. Bales's vivid case studies present actual slaves, slaveholders, and public officials in well-drawn historical, geographical, and cultural contexts. He observes the complex economic relationships of modern slavery and is aware that liberation is a bitter victory for a child prostitute or a bondaged miner if the result is starvation. Bales offers suggestions for combating the new slavery and provides examples of very positive results from organizations such as Anti-Slavery International, the Pastoral Land Commission in Brazil, and the Human Rights Commission in Pakistan. He also calls for researchers to follow the flow of raw materials and products from slave to marketplace in order to effectively target campaigns of "naming and shaming" corporations linked to slavery. Disposable People is the first book to point the way to abolishing slavery in today's global economy.

This is the paperback edition ofa globally recognized sourcebook on race and ethnic relations. It has been assembled by a world-class team of international scholars led by Ellis Cashmore to provide an authoritative, single-volume reference work on all aspects of race and ethnic studies. From Aboriginal Australians to xenophobia, Nelson Mandela to Richard Wagner, sexuality to racial profiling, the Encyclopedia is organized alphabetically and reflects cultural diversity in a global context. The entries range from succinct 400 word definitions to in-depth 2000 word essays to provide comprehensive coverage of: all the key terms, concepts and debates important figures, both historical and contemporary landmark cases historical events. Although unafraid to engage with cutting-edge theory,it is uncluttered by jargon and has been written in a lucid, 'facts-fronted' style to offer an accessible introduction to race and ethnic studies. Including a new introduction and fully cross-referenced index with most entries followed by annotated up-to-date suggestions for further reading to guide the user to the key sources, the book is already established as the authoritative sourcebook used by students, scholars, lawyers, journalists, members of the caring professions and many other groups involved in race and ethnic affairs.

Here, from a brilliant young writer, is a paradigm-shifting history of both a utopian concept and global movement—the idea of the Third World. The Darker Nations traces the intellectual origins and the political history of the twentieth century attempt to knit together the world’s impoverished countries in opposition to the United States and Soviet spheres of influence in the decades following World War II. Spanning every continent of the global South, Vijay Prashad’s fascinating narrative takes us from the birth of postcolonial nations after World War II to the downfall and corruption of nationalist regimes. A breakthrough book of cutting-edge scholarship, it includes vivid portraits of Third World giants like India’s Nehru, Egypt’s Nasser, and Indonesia’s Sukarno—as well as scores of extraordinary but now-forgotten intellectuals, artists, and freedom fighters. The Darker Nations restores to memory the vibrant though flawed idea of the Third World, whose demise, Prashad ultimately argues, has produced a much impoverished international political arena.

This book would not have been possible without the support of our two research projects: the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, MA, and Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project at the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life in Washington, DC, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and the John Templeton Foundation. We would not have been able to write this book without significant help from our Editorial Associate, Gina Bellofatto. Gina worked with us from the beginning of this project, organizing and editing the material, filling in the gaps, and keeping us moving in the midst of many other commitments. At the Center for the Study of Global Christianity we are grateful for the work of our Data Analyst, Peter Crossing, who provided all the detailed tables extracted from the World Religion Database. We are also thankful to Research Associate Albert Hickman for copy-editing this text, making numerous suggestions and improvements throughout. Other researchers working at the Center include LouAnn Stropoli, Brad Coon, Shawn Woo, Joanne Yen, Elizabeth LeLievre, Chak Him Chow, Sam Rogers, and Katie Bethea. At the Pew Research Center, we thank Conrad Hackett, Philip Connor, Juan Carlos Esparza Ochoa, Chris Gao, Noble Kuriakose, Anne Shi, Peter Henne (now at the University of Virginia), Becky Hsu (now at Georgetown University), and Mehtab Karim (now at George Mason University). Also, Vegard Skirbekk, Marcin Stonawski, Michaela Potančoková, and Anne Goujon, researchers at the Age and Cohort Change Project at the International Institute for Advanced Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria, contributed to the case studies on Muslim population growth. We are also grateful to Peter Berger and Robert Hefner at the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University for hosting us as Visiting Research Fellows in the Study of International Religious Demography. The World Religion Database, on which much of this study is based, is housed there. The opinions expressed in this book are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the organizations with which they are affiliated.

Vol. 2 : Africa. - 781 p.

Статистичні методи посідають дедалі більше місце в історичних дослідженнях. У даній праці розглядаються найважливіші статистичні публікації, які побачили світ в Україні в 1919—1990 рр., висвітлюється їх роль у відображенні кількісної сторони історичної дійсності.

У цьому історично-природничому нарисі з краєзнавства розповідається про чарівну природу Львівщини, її багатства, про населення краю, його історію, економіку. Книга ілюстрована, текст доповнюється картосхемами. Нарис розрахований на учнів середніх шкіл, ліцеїв, гімназій, коледжів, професійно-технічних училищ, технікумів, на учителів географії, історії, біології, краєзнавців, а також на широке коло читачів, які цікавляться природою, історією рідного краю.