The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World

Review

Engrossing (Evening Standard)

Fascinating (Sunday Times)

A readable, trenchant, up-to-date overview of the biggest story on the planet (Lionel Shriver, The Spectator)

An admirable introduction to a vital subject (The Times)

Paul Morland has rudely awakened us to the hidden hand of demography in shaping history and politics in the modern world ... If you want to understand our times, you must read this book. (Eric Kaufmann, Professor of Politics, Birkbeck University of London, author of 'Whiteshift')

A fascinating account of how much sheer population numbers have mattered in human history - and why major demographic upheavals, happening now and over the next few decades, are going to affect us all (Alison Wolf)

Population has been historically one of the key factors that has defined the relations between states. As Paul Morland shows in this nuanced, highly informative and rigorously argued book, it has now become the defining factor for the political dynamics within states. The Human Tide shows that we live in an age of hard and soft demographic engineering (Ivan Krastev)

As Morland argues arithmetically but convincingly, a society's rise or downfall is mirrored in its numbers (New Statesman)

About the Author

Dr Paul Morland is associate research fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London and a renowned authority on demography. A French speaker with dual German and British citizenship, Paul was educated at Oxford University, and was awarded his Ph.D from the University of London.