Author(s): Edward Alsworth Ross
Publisher: Chapman & Hall Ltd
Year: 1928
Language: English
Pages: 377
Introduction (v)......Page 4
Acknowledgment (ix)......Page 8
Contents (xi)......Page 9
List of Graphs (xiii)......Page 11
Part One. Population (1)......Page 13
1. How Fast Can Man Increase? (3)......Page 14
2. The Mortality of Olden Time (12)......Page 23
3. The Muzzling of Famine (23)......Page 34
4. The Conquest of Disease (33)......Page 44
5. The Throttling of Pestilence (47)......Page 58
6. Public Health Promotion (57)......Page 68
7. Results of the War on Disease (71)......Page 82
8. The Growth of Population (84)......Page 95
9. Prospects of Augmenting the Food Supply (106)......Page 117
10. The Reality of Population Pressure (119)......Page 130
11. The Characteristic Signs of Population Pressure (127)......Page 138
12. Provocatives of Population Pressure (142)......Page 153
13. Penalties of Population Pressure (153)......Page 164
15. Population Pressure and Economic Progress (177)......Page 188
16. Population Pressure and Political Democracy (184)......Page 195
17. Population Optimism (189)......Page 200
18. The Population Boosters (200)......Page 211
19. The Rise and Spread of an Adaptive Fertility (208)......Page 219
20. Factors of an Adaptive Fertility (220)......Page 231
21. Women and Adaptive Fertility (237)......Page 248
22. Religion and Adaptive Fertility (253)......Page 264
23. Problems of Adaptive Fertility (265)......Page 276
Part Two. International Migration (283)......Page 294
24. Population Tendencies of the Orient (285)......Page 295
25. Flowing Myriads (304)......Page 314
26. Effects of Immigration upon the Distribution of National Wealth and Welfare (314)......Page 324
27. Displacement of Native Stock by Immigrant Stock (318)......Page 328
28. Loss of Like-Mindedness by the Motley Immigration (326)......Page 336
29. Closing Gates (332)......Page 342
30. The Coming Great Barrier (341)......Page 351
Index (357)......Page 366
