Cover -- THE HISTORY OF HUMAN POPULATIONS -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- THE INSIGHTS AND CHALLENGES OF REPEATED PATTERNS OF GROWTH AND DECLINE IN HUMAN POPULATIONS -- HOW DO SUCH REGULAR AND RELATED FORMS OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE OCCUR? -- THE STEPS OF INQUIRY -- NOTES -- Chapter 1 The Nature of Trends in Migration -- THE G-RELATED SHAPES OF MODERN TRANSOCEANIC FLOWS -- THE FORMS OF INTERNAL RELOCATION -- SIMILAR MOVEMENTS IN EARLY BRITISH AMERICA -- THE CHARACTER OF SOME OTHER HISTORICAL MIGRATIONS -- NOTES -- Chapter 2 The International Slave Trade, 1450-1850: Further Perspective on Familiar Movements -- SLAVE IMPORTS TO MAJOR REGIONS OF CONSUMPTION -- G-BASED TRENDS IN PROVIDING HUMAN CARGOES -- THE CHANGING ACTIVITY OF VARIOUS POWERS IN AFRICAN SLAVING: TRADES TO THE MEDITERRANEAN, THE AMERICAS, AND ASIA, 1550-1861 -- SOME FINER PATTERNS IN HOW SLAVES WERE OBTAINED, SHIPPED, AND SOLD: POINTS OF COLLECTION AND LOADING, THE HOME PORTS OF SHIPS, AND LOCAL VENUES OF DISPOSAL -- NOTES -- Chapter 3 Going to Town: Urbanization and the Demographic Development of Cities -- IN-MIGRATION AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE IN CITIES -- REGIONAL AND SOCIETAL PATTERNS OF URBANIZATION -- CITIES, AGRICULTURE, AND OTHER RURAL ACTIVITIES IN THE CORE COUNTRIES OF EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT -- NOTES -- Chapter 4 The Growth and Change of Extended Urban Systems -- THE EXPANSION OF CITY POPULATIONS IN EUROPE AFTER 1500 -- INTERNATIONAL URBANIZATION, 1500-1980: CHANGING PROPORTIONS OF POPULATIONS LIVING IN CITIES -- URBANIZATION, MIGRATION, AND POPULATION GROWTH IN SYSTEMS OF INTERNATIONAL DEMONOMIC CHANGE -- NOTES -- Chapter 5 Stabilizing the Exceptional? Demographic Dimensions of Slavery and Slaving -- GOING BLACK -- AND BACK: TRENDS FROM ADOPTING AND ABANDONING SLAVERY -- GROWTH, CONTINUING IMPORTATION, AND PARTIAL SELF-REPLACEMENT IN SLAVE SOCIETIES -- THE EVOLVING STRUCTURE OF EARLY AFRICAN AMERICAN POPULATIONS -- CHANGES IN THE SEX, AGE, VALUE, AND TREATMENT OF FORCIBLY TRANSPORTED AFRICANS -- NOTES -- Chapter 6 How Other Populations Have Normalized or Adjusted -- GOING NATIVE: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF EUROPEAN PEOPLES IN EARLY AMERICA -- BEYOND THE COLONIES OF THE AMERICAS: OTHER SETTLER SOCIETIES AND SOME LONG-ESTABLISHED POPULATIONS -- MORE RECENT MOVEMENTS IN DEMOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE -- NOTES -- Summary and Implications -- SHARED PATTERNS IN FREE, FORCED, AND URBAN MIGRATIONS -- HOW THE COMPOSITIONS OF POPULATIONS HAVE ALTERED -- INTERACTING PATTERNS OF DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECONOMIC CHANGE -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.