Ebook: Atlas of world population history

Introduction 9
Note to the American Edition II
Published in Great Britain by
Penguin Books Ltd. and Allen Lane The Beginning 13
Copyright © Cohn McEvedy and Richard Jones, 1978, 1979 Part I
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be
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Publisher. Area I The British Isles 41
2 Scandinavia 50
Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data 3 France 55
McEvedy, Cohn. 4 The Low Countries 61
Atlas of world population history. 5 Germany 67
Bibliography: p.357 6 Poland 73
Includes index.
I. Population—History. 2. Population—Statistics. 7 Russia-in-Europe 78
3. Population—Charts, diagrams, etc. I. Jones, 8 Czechoslovakia 83
Richard. joint author. II. Title. 9 Switzerland and Austria 86
tin 851.M32 312 78-16954
ISBN 0.87196-402-3 10 Hungary 92 II Romania 95
12 Iberia 99
13 Italy 106
14 The Balkans 110
Printed in Great Britain IS The Islands (Cyprus, Malta, Iceland, the Azores,
Madeira and the Canaries) 115
Part 2
ASIA
Overview 123
Area I The Near East 133
2 Russia-in-Asia 157
3 Mongolia 164
4 China 166
Part 3
5 Korea 176
6 Japan 179
7 The Indian Subcontinent
8 South-East Asia 190
AFRICA
Overview 207
Area I The Maghreb 219
2 Libya 224
3 Egypt 226
4 Ethiopia 230
5 Somalia 234
6 Sudan 235
7 The Sahel States 238
8 West Africa 24!
9 Equatoria. Zaire and Angola 247
10 East Africa 250
II South-Central Africa 254
12 Mozambique 256
13 Southern Africa 258
14 The Islands ofthe Western Indian Ocean 264
Part 4
Area I Australia 327
2 Melanesia 330
3 Polynesia 334
4 New Zealand 337
Part 6
GLOBAL OVERVIEW
Appendix I Reliability 353
Appendix 2 Historiograpliy 354
General Bibliography 357
Index 363