The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World

by Paul Morland

Book Overview

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, and Soviet Russia. These are the headlines of history, but they cannot be properly grasped without understanding the role that population...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541788362
• ISBN13: 9781541788367
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 9.3"