Intro; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1 Life History Theory: An Overview in Abstract; References; Part I Huntington, Crosby, and Baker; Chapter 2 Ellsworth Huntington's Victorian Climatic Writings; 1 Ellsworth Huntington's Climate-Colored Glasses; 2 Mapping the Distribution of Civilization; 3 Mapping the Distribution of Life History; 4 The Life History Response to Eurasian Ecology; References; Chapter 3 Alfred W. Crosby: Adapting Within a Matrix of Flora and Fauna; 1 The Walt Whitman of World History; 2 The Columbian Exchange; 3 Symbiotic Portmanteau Assemblages

4 Europeans and Amerindian Life Histories Before and After the Columbian ExchangeReferences; Chapter 4 The Historical Geography of Alan R. H. Baker: Scratching Out a Living After the Neolithic Revolution; 1 The Historical Geography of A. R. H. Baker; 2 Straddling the Divide; 3 Baker in Life History Perspective; 4 Support and Future Investigation; References; Part I Section Metacommentary; References; Part II Price, Malthus, and Landers; Chapter 5 Richard Price: The Schedules of Mortality; 1 Richard Price: Life and Works; 2 Insuring Against Mortality

3 Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Mortality4 Comparative Evidence; References; Chapter 6 Thomas Robert Malthus, Stratification, and Subjugation: Closing the Commons and Opening the Factory; 1 Scourge of the English Poor; 2 Population Pressure; 3 Population Density: A Driver of Life History Speed; 4 Density-Dependent Life History Effects; References; Chapter 7 Famine, Pestilence, War, and Death: John Maxwell Landers' Four Horseman Spurring Humans Faster Along the Life History Continuum; 1 The Historical Evolution of Urban Populations; 2 Fertility, Infection, Technology, War, and Death

3 Climate, Life History, and Demography: Evolutionary Links4 Evidence from Nordic History; References; Part II Section Metacommentary; References; Part III Toynbee, McNeill, and Casey; Chapter 8 Arnold Joseph Toynbee: The Role of Life History in Civilization Cycling; 1 A Life in Comparative History; 2 Firefly Flashes of Historical Insight; 3 The Hallucination of a Wanderer Lost in the Forest; 4 The Tipping Point; References; Chapter 9 William H. McNeill: Epidemiological and Biogeographical Perspectives on Civilization; 1 Painting on a Big Canvas; 2 Epidemiological World History

3 Mortality Regime and Ecology4 Evidence of the Latitudinal Diversity and Consequent Effects on Human Life History; References; Chapter 10 James Casey: Extrapolating from Early Modern Iberia; 1 The Sociological Laboratory of Early Modern Spain; 2 The State and the Family Unit; 3 The Evolution of Family Structure as a Barometer and Driver of Social Change; 4 An Imperfect Survey of Suggestive Data; References; Part III Section Metacommentary; References; Part IV Murdock, Keeley, and Harris; Chapter 11 George Peter Murdock: Stemming the Tide of Sterility with an Atlas of World Cultures