Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Urban Demography of the Past -- THE WESTERN URBAN TRADITION -- 1. The Growth of Greek Cities in the First Millennium BC -- 2. Did the Population of Imperial Rome Reproduce Itself ? -- 3. Epidemics, Age at Death, and Mortality in Ancient Rome -- 4. Seasonal Mortality in Imperial Rome and the Mediterranean: Three Problem Cases -- 5. Population Relationships in and around Medieval Danish Towns -- 6. Colonial and Postcolonial New York: Issues of Size, Scale, and Structure -- URBAN SOCIETY ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT -- 7. An Urban Population from Roman Upper Egypt -- 8. Precolonial African Cities: Size and Density -- FAR EASTERN URBANIZATION -- 9. Urbanization in China: Erlitou and Its Hinterland -- 10. Population Growth and Change in the Ancient City of Kyongju -- 11. Population Dynamics and Urbanism in Premodern Island Southeast Asia -- URBAN CENTERS OF THE NEW WORLD -- 12. Identifying Tiwanaku Urban Populations: Style, Identity, and Ceremony in Andean Cities -- 13. Late Classic Maya Population: Characteristics and Implications -- 14. Mortality through Time in an Impoverished Residence of the Precolumbian City of Teotihuacan: A Paleodemographic View -- 15. The Evolution of Regional Demography and Settlement in the Prehispanic Basin of Mexico -- CROSS-CULTURAL SYNTHESIS -- 16. Factoring the Countryside into Urban Populations -- 17. Shining Stars and Black Holes: Population and Preindustrial Cities -- References -- Contributors -- Index.