Author: Spengler, Joseph J.
Title: France Faces Depopulation: Postlude Edition, 1936-1976.
Description: Durham [NC], Duke University Press, 1979. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xvi, 383 pp, Series: Studies in Social & Economic Demography, 2.. Textual tables.. Minor rubbing. Some slight page-edge & dustwrapper soil. VG. du ¶ A reissue of the 1938 edition, with new Foreword, Preface & Postlude prepared specially for this edition. Contents: Growth in Total Population, 1700-1936; Regional Variations in Population Growth; Natural Increase in France, 1650-1935; Differential Natality & Fertility; Depopulationist Fears: Repopulationism (1400-1870); (1870-1937); French Explanations of the Causes of the Decline in Natality; Colonial Theory, Colonization, & Emigration; Immigration, Immigration Policy, Effects; Measures to Promote Natural Increase; Concusion: Interpretation; Postlude (1936-1976).

Keywords: Historical Demography, France, French Population, Demographic, History, Depopulation, Economics, Economic Theory,