The Human Tide av Paul Morland

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<p><b>''Superbly explained'' <i>Washington Post</i></b><br><b><br>''Fascinating'' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>''Engrossing'' <i>Evening Standard</i></b><br><br>Every phase since the advent of the industrial revolution - from the fate of the British Empire, to the global challenges from Germany, Japan and Russia, to America''s emergence as a sole superpower, to the Arab Spring, to the long-term decline of economic growth that started with Japan and has now spread to Europe, to China''s meteoric economy, to Brexit and the presidency of Donald Trump - can be explained better when we appreciate the meaning of demographic change across the world.<i>The Human Tide</i> is the first popular history book to redress the underestimated influence of population as a crucial factor in almost all of the major global shifts and events of the last two centuries - revealing how such events are connected by the invisible mutually catalysing forces of population.<br><br><br>This highly original hist