52:30622 Blum,
Alain; Houdaille, Jacques. Twelve thousand Parisians in
1793: a sample of civic cards. [12,000 Parisiens en 1793:
sondage dans les cartes de civisme.] Population, Vol. 41, No. 2,
Mar-Apr 1986. 259-302 pp. Paris, France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng; Spa.
The authors analyze selected characteristics of the city's
residents in the eighteenth century using a 10 percent sample of the
registers of civic cards for Paris, France, for 1793. Particular
attention is given to regions of origin and to occupations. "Only 27
per cent [of the residents] were born in Paris. This proportion
remained relatively constant throughout the nineteenth century. The
flow of in-migrants increased continuously between 1730 and the
Revolution, and the age distribution of these migrants did not change.
They came primarily from the North Eastern parts of France and from
some of the departements of Central France (especially from Cantal).
The picture was almost identical in 1891."
It is also noted that
"the occupations of migrants varied with their origin. Some regions
were known to specialize in particular trades: the Limousins were
masons, Auvergne provided water carriers. Those coming from Aquitaine
and Provence formed an elite. Regions with high rates of out-migration
tended to supply Paris with skilled workers, among those coming from
other regions the relatively well-off provided the largest
proportion."
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:30623 Guillaume,
Pierre. Individuals, families, and nations. A historical
demographic study of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
[Individus, familles, nations. Essai d'histoire demographique, XIXe-XXe
siecles.] Regards sur l'Histoire, ISBN 2-7181-2103-3. 1985. 426 pp.
Societe d'Edition d'Enseignement Superieur: Paris, France. In Fre.
An analysis of the relationships between the demographic transition
and the emergence of the concept of the individual as opposed to the
community is presented. The geographic focus is worldwide, with
particular attention to developed countries. Global population
developments from the end of the eighteenth century are first outlined.
Next, the emergence of the concept of voluntary fertility control and
the reduction of mortality are described. The author also considers
the progress of change in fertility and mortality.
Chapters are also
included on the individual, the couple, and the family in the
nineteenth century; developments involving feminism, new life-styles,
children's rights, and attitudes concerning divorce, premarital sex,
and abortion; migration; recent social changes, including urbanization
and the emergence of multiethnic societies; and population theories and
policies.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:30624 Holbrook,
Jay M. Connecticut colonists: Windsor 1635-1703.
ISBN 0-931248-40-X. LC 84-080146. 1986. xx, 297 pp. Holbrook Research
Institute: Oxford, Massachusetts. In Eng.
This work consists
primarily of a listing of the inhabitants of Windsor, Connecticut, in
the seventeenth century, together with information on vital events and
relationships. The data are from a variety of historical sources. In a
brief introduction, the author uses these data to present an
alternative theory of the demographic transition based on the
importance of a society's religiosity, in which the religious factor is
seen as a stimulus to economic development.
Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:30625 Legare,
Jacques. Three centuries of demographic change in
Quebec. [Trois siecles de variations demographiques au Quebec.]
Collection de Tires a Part, No. 190, [1985?]. [9] pp. Universite de
Montreal, Departement de Demographie: Montreal, Quebec. In Fre.
A
review of population trends in Quebec since 1684 is presented, with a
focus on the change from traditional to modern behavior at the family
and individual level and its demographic implications. The changes in
the family life cycle that have occurred are analyzed, and the
accompanying changes in the frequency and timing of demographic events
are described.
This article was reprinted from Memoires de la
Societe Royale du Canada, Fourth Series, Vol. 22, 1984, pp.
85-93.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:30626 Pflaumer,
Peter. Spectral analysis of demographic and economic time
series for the former German Reich from 1871 to 1913.
[Spektralanalyse demographischer und okonomischer Zeitreihen des
Deutschen Reiches von 1871 bis 1913.] Zeitschrift fur
Bevolkerungswissenschaft, Vol. 11, No. 4, 1985. 577-92 pp. Wiesbaden,
Germany, Federal Republic of. In Ger. with sum. in Eng; Fre.
"The
present contribution studies statistically the relationship between the
demographic and economic development of the former German Reich from
1871 to 1913. Starting point is the thesis of August Losch...according
to which the population growth had an important influence on the
economic development in the former German Reich. It has not been
possible to verify his hypothesis with the methods of...spectral
analysis and cross spectral analysis. Nevertheless, it has been
possible to establish a demo-economic relationship. Not the population
growth, but rather the closely related increase in the numbers of
households correlates highly with the economic
development."
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:30627 Rowland,
Robert. Demographic patterns and rural society in
Portugal: implications of some recent research. Sociologia
Ruralis, Vol. 26, No. 1, 1986. 36-47 pp. Assen, Netherlands. In Eng.
with sum. in Fre; Ger.
"The essay outlines some possible
implications of recent research on demographic patterns for the
historical study of rural society in Portugal. The first part is
devoted to a summary of population trends since the 16th century, and
the need for aggregative studies based on parish registers is
emphasised."
The author argues "that the available evidence suggests
the pertinence of a regional perspective, in which variation across
space is given as much prominence as change over time. A number of
regional patterns--in mortality, fertility and nuptiality--are
described and shown to be associated with regionally specific patterns
of household organization. Some implications are suggested of the fact
that this regional configuration of family forms and demographic
patterns appears to have been in existence and to have persisted since
the 16th century."
Location: Princeton University Library
(FST).
52:30628 Wenig,
Alois. Overpopulation--a cause of war? Notes on the
population theory of Thomas Robert Malthus. [Ubervolkerung--eine
Kriegsursache? Einige Anmerkungen zur Bevolkerungslehre von Thomas
Robert Malthus.] Kyklos, Vol. 38, No. 3, 1985. 365-91 pp. Basel,
Switzerland. In Ger. with sum. in Eng; Fre.
The relationship
between Malthusian pressures and the frequency of wars in seventeenth-
and eighteenth-century Europe is examined. The author concludes that
Europe at that time could easily support its population above
subsistence level.
"It was the political regime of absolutism which
established mechanisms of income distribution that impoverished a large
fraction of the society. The numerous barriers to market entry of the
guild system and primogeniture as the predominant bequest rule among
nobles left many young men, commoners and nobles alike, no choice but
to join the army. In order to reduce the number of expensive
mercenaries it was then individually rational for the princes to more
or less continuously participate in militant
conflicts."
Location: Princeton University Library (FST).
52:30629 Kintner,
Hallie J. Classifying causes of death during the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the case of German infant
mortality. Historical Methods, Vol. 19, No. 2, Spring 1986. 45-54
pp. Washington, D.C. In Eng.
Methodological problems concerning the
study of cause of death in historical populations are examined using
data from nineteenth-century Germany. The main concern is how to
reconcile data when different cause of death classifications were used
by state and national statistical offices either simultaneously or
sequentially. The unified scheme proposed is based on broad cause of
death groups developed by Samuel H. Preston which are distinct and
mutually exclusive on epidemiological grounds.
For the study by
Preston et al., published in 1972, see 39:1188.
Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:30630 Legare,
Jacques; Desjardins, Bertrand. From parish registers to
genealogies: the role of the computer in the Research Program in
Demographic History. [Des registres paroissiaux aux genealogies:
le role de l'ordinateur au Programme de Recherche en Demographie
Historique.] Collection de Tires a Part, No. 193, [1985?]. [13] pp.
Universite de Montreal, Departement de Demographie: Montreal, Canada.
In Fre.
The authors describe a project of the Research Program in
Demographic History at the University of Montreal, involving the use of
a computer in the constitution of a population register consisting of
biographic dossiers for all individuals who lived in Quebec, Canada,
from the beginning of the seventeenth century through the establishment
of modern censuses in 1851. The procedure for extracting the necessary
information from parish registers of the period is outlined, and the
computerized reconstitution process is described. In the first stage
of the project, approximately 300,000 baptism, marriage, and burial
slips, concerning an estimated 200,000 individuals for the period up to
1766, have been entered into the data base.
Each dossier consists
of a list of demographic events in which an individual participates in
a lifetime, either as the subject, the parent, or the spouse, and
information concerning characteristics of the individual .
This
article is reprinted from Archives (Montreal, Canada), Vol. 16, No. 3,
Dec 1984, pp. 3-15.
Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
52:30631 McCaa,
Robert. Orphanhood and adult mortality in the past: a
critique of Latin American data and procedures. Latin American
Population History Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 1, Fall 1985. 7-10 pp.
Minneapolis, Minnesota. In Eng.
The author examines the
applicability of indirect methods for estimating mortality from
information about orphanhood based on methods developed by Brass and
Hill using data from Latin America. The author concludes that the data
sources available in the region may not be adequate for the application
of such techniques.
Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
52:30632 Siegfried,
Michael. The skewed sex ratio in a medieval population: a
reinterpretation. Social Science History, Vol. 10, No. 2, Summer
1986. 195-204 pp. Durham, North Carolina. In Eng.
The author
examines the ninth-century French monastic tax rolls known as the
Carolingian polyptychs. These records have been used as evidence of
the practice of female infanticide since the data indicate a skewed sex
ratio favoring males. It is suggested that this imbalance is in fact a
product of the undercounting of females, the overrepresentation of
males in a religious setting, and deliberate omissions from the
records, amongst other causes.
Location: New York Public
Library.
