A Population History of North America

1. Introduction Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel; 2. Population history of North American Indians Russell Thornton; 3. Patterns of disease in early North American populations Douglas H. Ubelaker; 4. The population of New France and Quebec 1608–1790 Hubert Charbonneau, Bertrand Desjardins, and Jacques Legare; 5. The white population of the colonial United States 1607–1790 Hank Gemery; 6. The African-American population of the Colonial United States Lorena Walsh; 7. The population of Mexico from its origins to the Revolution of 1910 Robert McCaa; 8. The White Population of the United States, 1790–1920 Michael R. Haines; 9. Canada in the nineteenth century Marvin McInnis; 10. The African-American population of the United States, 1790–1920 Richard H. Steckel; 11. A population history of the Caribbean Stanley L. Engerman; 12. Canada in the twentieth century Marvin McInnis; 13. Mexico's demographic expansion: 1920 to 1990 Zadia Feliciano; 14. The population of the United States since 1920 Richard Easterlin; 15. Concluding comments Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel.