Includes bibliographical references and index.

Population history of native North Americans / Russell Thornton -- Patterns of disease in early North American populations / Douglas H. Ubelaker -- The population of the St. Lawrence Valley, 1608-1760 / Hubert Charbonneau ... [et al.] -- The white population of the colonial United States, 1607-1790 / Henry A. Gemery -- The African American population of the colonial United States / Lorena S. Walsh -- The peopling of Mexico from origins to revolution / Robert McCaa -- The white population of the United States, 1790-1920 / Michael R. Haines -- The population of Canada in the nineteenth century / Marvin McInnis -- The African American population of the United States, 1790-1920 / Richard H. Steckel -- A population history of the Caribbean / Stanley L. Engerman -- Canada's population in the twentieth century / Marvin McInnis -- Mexico's demographic transformation : from 1920 to 1990 / Zadia M. Feliciano -- Growth and composition of the American population in the twentieth century / Richard A. Easterlin.