A panoramic account by the distinguished Harvard historian of five generations of a French provincial family originally from Angouleme, crammed with stories and archival research. ER has a d... read more
A useful book from CUP, as thorough as you would expect. Paris and London in the 1720s, Latin America a century later, New York in the 1920s, Shanghai in the 2000s amongst others.
...and why it's good for the planet, the economy and our lives. We may even have time to read it. Prof Dorling is a specialist in demography at Oxford and knows his onions.