"This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares this knowledge to popular beliefs. The...

This is the first full scale survey of the demographic history of the United States in one volume. It starts with the arrival of humans in the Western Hemisphere and ends with the questions of declining fertility, and the changes in marriage and the family in the current century

Political scientists make heavy use of census statistics but have given scant attention to the politics behind the production of those statistics. Key issues that merit analytic attention by political science include vote dilution, the policy of population growth and composition, distributional...