Population and economic development in Brasil : 1800 to the present /
Thomas W. Merrick and Douglas H. Graham.
- Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.
- xviii, 385 páginas : ilustraciones, gráficas, tablas a blanco y negro ; 24 cm.
I. Population and economic development in Brazil: introduction, 1 -- II. The Brazilian economy in historical perspective, 7 -- III. Long-trends in population growth, 1800-1970, 25 -- IV. Slaves and slavery in the demographic history of nineteenth-century Brazil, 49 -- V. Immigration: Its robe and impact on the labor force and economic growth, 80 -- VI. Population redistribution, migration, and regional economic growth, 118 -- VII. Grow and structure of the Brazilian labor force, 1872-1970, 146 -- VIII. Rural-urban migration and urban population growth, 185 -- IX. Migration, labor absorption, and the problem of urban poverty, 213 -- X. Fertility and mortality in the postwar period, 251 -- XI. Population, development, and planning in Brazil, 278 -- XII. The future of Brazilian population growth, 297 -- XIII. Population and development in Brazil: a concluding summary, 314 -- Glossary of abbreviations and acronyms in references, 342 -- References, 343 -- Index, 375.