Much Of Human History Has Consisted Of

Not Until The Beginning Of The 20th Century Did Europe's Urban Populations Finally Become Self-sustaining: Before Then, Constant Immigration Of Healthy Peasants From The Countryside Was Necessary To Make Up For The Constant Deaths Of City Dwellers From Crowd Diseases.

I Decided That Now Is The Time To Start Doing The Things That Really Interest Me And I Find Important. It Was In The 10 Years Of The Macarthur Grant That I Began Working On My First Book... And I Began Putting More Work Into Environmental History.

Forced To Choose Between Limiting Population Or Trying To Increase Food Production, We Chose The Latter And Ended Up With Starvation, Warfare, And Tyranny.

All Human Societies Go Through Fads In Which They Temporarily Either Adopt Practices Of Little Use Or Else Abandon Practices Of Considerable Use.

When You Have Seen The Errors In Which You Live, You Will Understand The Good That We Have Done You By Coming To Your Land By Order Of His Majesty The King Of Spain. Our Lord Permitted That Your Pride Should Be Brought Low And That No Indian Should Be Able To Offend A Christian.