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
...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.
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.