Cover -- PEASANTS, CITIZENS AND SOLDIERS -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Maps -- Note on abbreviations -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1 Evidence, theories and models in Roman population history -- 1.1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.2 ROMAN DEMOGRAPHY: LOW COUNT VERSUS HIGH COUNT -- 1.3 TRADITIONAL...

Part one: Population and history. Introduction ; The weight of numbers -- Part two: The gathering tide : among the Europeans. The triumph of the Anglo-Saxons ; The German and Russian challenges ; The passing of the 'great race' ; The West since 1945 : from baby-boom to mass immigration ; Russia...