Summary
"A dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires The rise and fall of the British Empire; the emergence of America as a superpower; the ebb and flow of global challenges from Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan,... Full description
- 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 and the Eastern Bloc from 1945 : the demography of Cold War defeat
- Part three: The tide goes global : beyond the Europeans. Japan, China and East Asia : the ageing of giants ; The Middle East and North Africa : the demography of instability ; Nothing new under the sun? : final frontiers and future vistas
- Appendix I: How life expectancy is calculated
- Appendix II: How the total fertility rate is calculated.