Over Land and Sea: Migration from Antiquity to the Present Day, Massimo Livi-Bacci, trans. David Broder. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2023. 163 pp., maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.

This is the latest book from an Italian demographer whose name, Massimo Livi Bacci, unfortunately remains little-known among geographers. Yet, Livi Bacci is a scholar with a strong geographical sensitivity, which he expressed in some classical works, many of which have been translated into English, addressing the role of space in the growth of global populations such as A Concise History of World Population (2017) and in the dynamics of Indigenous genocide such as Conquest: the Destruction of American Indios (2008). Likewise, some of his latest works such as Our Shrinking Planet (2017), discussing current concerns for climate change and global sustainability, provide geopolitical analyses on the potential effects of the future differences in demographic growth between the so-called ‘Global North’ and the ‘Global South’.