In A Population History of the United States (Cambridge, 2004), Hoover fellow Herbert S. Klein has produced the first comprehensive examination of demographics in the United States. This full-scale, one-volume survey looks at migration to the United States beginning with the arrival of humans to the Western Hemisphere and continuing through to the current century.
Klein explains in the introduction that his efforts are to report on the best of the current research and to summarize the mass of quantitative materials that private and public agencies have produced for understanding our society. This includes, he adds, both the commonality of patterns and changes that the population of the United States shared with other nations, especially those of the North Atlantic world, and also to examine those features that were unique to its evolution.
Klein, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the Gouverneur Morris Professor of History, Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Atlantic Slave Trade (Cambridge, 1999) and A Concise History of Bolivia (Cambridge, 2000). He also coedited The Transatlantic Slave Trade: 1562–1867: A Database (Cambridge, 2000) with David Etix, Stephen D. Behrendt, and David Richardson.
A Population History of the United States
by Hoover Fellow Herbert S. Klein
ISBN: 0-521-78810-2 $23.00 paperback
304 pages March 2004
