Atlas of world population history

Introduction 9 Note to the American Edition II Published in Great Britain by Penguin Books Ltd. and Allen Lane The Beginning 13 Copyright © Cohn McEvedy and Richard Jones, 1978, 1979 Part I All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, EUROPE electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval Overview 19 system, without permission in writing from the Publisher. Area I The British Isles 41 2 Scandinavia 50 Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data 3 France 55 McEvedy, Cohn. 4 The Low Countries 61 Atlas of world population history. 5 Germany 67 Bibliography: p.357 6 Poland 73 Includes index. I. Population—History. 2. Population—Statistics. 7 Russia-in-Europe 78 3. Population—Charts, diagrams, etc. I. Jones, 8 Czechoslovakia 83 Richard. joint author. II. Title. 9 Switzerland and Austria 86 tin 851.M32 312 78-16954 ISBN 0.87196-402-3 10 Hungary 92 II Romania 95 12 Iberia 99 13 Italy 106 14 The Balkans 110 Printed in Great Britain IS The Islands (Cyprus, Malta, Iceland, the Azores, Madeira and the Canaries) 115 Part 2 ASIA Overview 123 Area I The Near East 133 2 Russia-in-Asia 157 3 Mongolia 164 4 China 166 Part 3 5 Korea 176 6 Japan 179 7 The Indian Subcontinent 8 South-East Asia 190 AFRICA Overview 207 Area I The Maghreb 219 2 Libya 224 3 Egypt 226 4 Ethiopia 230 5 Somalia 234 6 Sudan 235 7 The Sahel States 238 8 West Africa 24! 9 Equatoria. Zaire and Angola 247 10 East Africa 250 II South-Central Africa 254 12 Mozambique 256 13 Southern Africa 258 14 The Islands ofthe Western Indian Ocean 264 Part 4 Area I Australia 327 2 Melanesia 330 3 Polynesia 334 4 New Zealand 337 Part 6 GLOBAL OVERVIEW Appendix I Reliability 353 Appendix 2 Historiograpliy 354 General Bibliography 357 Index 363