53:10618
Baszanowski, Jan. Gdansk's precursor of
demography: Michal Krzysztof Hanow, 1695-1773. [Gdanski prekursor
demografii: Michal Krzysztof Hanow, 1695-1773.] Przeszlosc
Demograficzna Polski, Vol. 16, 1985. 7-24 pp. Warsaw, Poland. In Pol.
with sum. in Eng.
The work of the eighteenth-century Polish scholar
Michal Krzysztof Hanow is described, with emphasis on his studies in
demography. The focus of his work was on the demography of the city of
Gdansk.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
53:10619 Bielke,
Edgar. Friedrichswerder from 1720 to 1799: a historical
demographic study as a contribution to the social history of the
eighteenth century. [Friedrichswerder 1720 bis 1799: eine
historisch-demographische Untersuchung als Beitrag zur Sozialgeschichte
des 18. Jahrhunderts.] In: Berlin-Forschungen, I, edited by Wolfgang
Ribbe. Einzelveroffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission zu Berlin,
Vol. 54, ISBN 3-7678-0681-9. 1986. 135-95 pp. Colloquium: Berlin,
Germany, Federal Republic of. In Ger.
A historical demographic
micro-study of the Berlin parish of Friedrichswerder is presented for
the years 1720-1799. The data are from parish registers covering
14,601 births and 11,483 deaths. Topics examined include occupational
distribution; poverty; mortality and causes of death, including yearly,
monthly, age-specific, and sex-specific patterns; natality; and the
phenomenon of increasing illegitimacy.
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
53:10620 Davis,
David E. Regulation of human population in northern France
and adjacent lands in the Middle Ages. Human Ecology, Vol. 14, No.
2, Jun 1986. 245-67 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
"In northern
France and Europe the population trebled after 1000 and then ceased to
increase about 1300, before the Black Death caused an abrupt decline.
The birthrate, as indicated by number of surviving children, increased
and then declined. Death rates increased after 1250 and, of course,
during the Black Death. Migration...was high after 1100 but ceased by
about 1250. The evidence about resources, disease, and internecine
strife is compatible with this scenario which can be predicted based on
other animal populations."
Authors's address: 777 Picacho Lane,
Santa Barbara, CA 93108.
Location: Princeton University
Library (PR).
53:10621 Davis,
Kingsley. The history of birth and death. Bulletin of
the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 42, No. 4, Apr 1986. 20-3 pp. Chicago,
Illinois. In Eng.
The demographic history of humanity is reviewed.
The author concludes that over the course of human evolution, zero
population growth was the norm rather than the exception. The reasons
for this are examined in an effort to throw light on the causes of the
modern population explosion.
Location: Princeton University
Library (PR).
53:10622
Gawrysiakowa, Janina. Registration of natural
increase in the Jewish population of the Lublin region in the
nineteenth century. [Rejestracja ruchu naturalnego ludnosci
zydowskiej w Lubelskiem w XIX w.] Przeszlosc Demograficzna Polski, Vol.
16, 1985. 75-107 pp. Warsaw, Poland. In Pol. with sum. in Eng.
The
dynamics of the Jewish population of Poland's Lublin region during the
nineteenth century are analyzed using data from registers of marital
status. These registers were begun by the occupying powers following
the final partition of 1795 and have been preserved almost completely
for the city of Lublin and 12 smaller towns of the region.
Consideration is given to the quality of the available
data.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
53:10623 Imhof,
Arthur E. Life-course patterns of women and their
husbands: 16th to 20th century. In: Human development and the
life course: multidisciplinary perspectives, edited by Aage B.
Sorensen, Franz E. Weinert, and Lonnie R. Sherrod. ISBN 0-89859-664-5.
LC 85-4524. 1986. 247-70 pp. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: Hillsdale,
New Jersey. In Eng.
Changes in the life course of men and women
from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries are examined using data
from parish registers, funeral orations, and official statistics for
Germany. Consideration is given to changes in life expectancy; the
heterogeneity of life courses in history according to religion, region,
and social class; marriage patterns; and the family life
cycle.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
53:10624 May, Glenn
A. 150,000 missing Filipinos: a demographic crisis in
Batangas, 1887-1903. Annales de Demographie Historique, 1985.
215-43 pp. Paris, France. In Eng. with sum. in Fre.
An apparent
demographic crisis that occurred in Batangas, the Philippines, between
1887 and 1903 is examined. The study involves an evaluation of the
available data sources, including parish records and the census of
1903. The author concludes that both sources are seriously flawed, but
that the observed decline in population was probably due to the
occurrence of major epidemics.
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
53:10625 Negruti,
Ecaterina. The Moldavian villages in the first half of the
nineteenth century: demographic contributions. [Satul Moldovenesc
in prima jumatate a secolului al XIX-lea: contributii demografice.] LC
85-134740. 1984. 147 pp. Universitatea Al. I. Cuza: Iasi, Romania. In
Rum. with sum. in Fre.
Demographic trends in the Romanian province
of Moldavia in the first half of the nineteenth century are examined.
The data are from both financial records and parish registers.
Consideration is given to rural and urban population trends, rural
settlements and their composition, and the demographic transition and
its social and economic impact on rural villages. The characteristics
of the rural population are described, including sex distribution,
marital status, family size, social class, ethnic groups, and age
distribution. The natural increase of the rural population and its
components are analyzed.
Location: U.S. Library of
Congress, Washington, D.C.
53:10626 Ribbe,
Wolfgang. Berlin research, Vol. 1.
[Berlin-Forschungen, I.] Einzelveroffentlichungen der Historischen
Kommission zu Berlin, Vol. 54, ISBN 3-7678-0681-9. 1986. 332 pp.
Colloquium: Berlin, Germany, Federal Republic of. In Ger.
This book
is a collection of eight papers by various authors. The focus is on
the social history of Berlin, primarily from the seventeenth century to
the nineteenth century. Five of the papers deal with demographic
topics.
Selected items will be cited in this or subsequent issues of
Population Index.
Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
53:10627 Schapiro,
Morton O. Filling up America: an economic-demographic
model of population growth and distribution in the nineteenth-century
United States. Industrial Development and the Social Fabric, Vol.
8, ISBN 0-89232-675-1. LC 86-2771. 1986. xiii, 149 pp. Jai Press:
Greenwich, Connecticut/London, England. In Eng.
This study is an
attempt to apply economic modeling techniques to the examination of
some of the causes and consequences of population growth and
distribution in the historical United States. "By using partial
equilibrium analysis, fertility and migration are examined separately
in an attempt to evaluate the impact of changes in economic factors--in
particular, changes in the availability of farmland--in explaining
cross-section and time-series movements in birth rates and in gross
migration."
Furthermore, the fertility and mortality models are
combined to produce a general dynamic model. "The structure of this
model allows for an analysis of the settlement of the United States in
which population growth and distribution affect the economic
environment and initiate a demographic response which, in turn,
dictates the course of further population growth. The model is used to
evaluate empirically [various hypotheses concerning the causes and
consequences of population growth and distribution] and to provide
insight into those factors which played important roles in determining
the course of U.S. demographic history."
Location:
Princeton University Library (FST).
53:10628 Slack,
Paul. The impact of plague in Tudor and Stuart
England. ISBN 0-7102-0469-8. LC 84-27574. 1985. xvi, 443 pp.
Routledge and Kegan Paul: Boston, Massachusetts/London, England. In
Eng.
The author examines the impact of the plague in England from
1500 to around 1670. During this period, the plague caused mortality
crises in about 18 percent of the parishes of England every 10 years or
so. The impact of the plague is investigated in selected rural and
urban areas as well as in the capital, London. In addition to
considering the demographic and economic consequences of the plague at
the macro level, the author examines its impact on the family and
household. The final part reviews the social response to the plague,
focusing on the public health measures developed and their
effectiveness.
Location: Princeton University Library
(FST).
53:10629 Vidal i
Bendito, Tomas. The role of Barcelona in the Catalan
demographic transition (1857-1920). [El papel de Barcelona en la
transicion demografica catalana (1857-1920).] Estudios Geograficos,
Vol. 46, No. 178-179, Feb-May 1985. 189-210 pp. Madrid, Spain. In Spa.
with sum. in Eng; Fre.
The role played by the city of Barcelona in
the demographic transition of the Catalan region of Spain is analyzed.
The author notes that the city attracted a high proportion of the
region's younger population, whose fertility and life expectancy was
reduced in the urban environment. The change in the age distribution
of the population caused by this process at the turn of the century is
noted.
Location: U.S. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
53:10630 Gehrmann,
Rolf. Goals and methods of the historical demographic
evaluation of Berlin-Brandenburg parish register material. The example
of St. Nikolai (Spandau). [Zielsetzungen und Methoden bei der
historisch-demographischen Auswertung von Berlin-Brandenburgischem
Kirchenbuchmaterial. Das Beispiel St. Nikolai (Spandau).] In:
Berlin-Forschungen, I, edited by Wolfgang Ribbe.
Einzelveroffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission zu Berlin, Vol.
54, ISBN 3-7678-0681-9. 1986. 265-95 pp. Colloquium: Berlin, Germany,
Federal Republic of. In Ger.
The methodology used in carrying out a
family reconstitution study for the district of Spandau, now in West
Berlin, is described. The data are from parish registers, primarily
for the period 1720-1870. Selected results concerning fertility,
mortality, infant mortality, and social structure are also presented;
and comparisons are made with data for Berlin as a
whole.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
53:10631 Leboutte,
Rene; Alter, George; Gutmann, Myron. Analysis of
reconstituted families: a package of SAS programs. Historical
Methods, Vol. 20, No. 1, Winter 1987. 29-34 pp. Washington, D.C. In
Eng.
The authors describe computer programs that deal with the
statistical analysis of family reconstitution data. They "have used a
general statistical package, Statistical Analysis System (SAS), which
is widely available. It has been possible to produce all the standard
tables used in the classic monographs in historical demography and to
retain the flexibility and power of a general statistical
package....The SAS programs presented here were developed in 1983 at
the University of Texas at Austin and were tested and employed at the
University of Liege (Belgium). The programs were applied to more than
3,600 reconstituted families from nineteenth-century Eastern Belgium
with great success."
Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
53:10632 Roman,
Louis. Fiscal and demographic statistics, or false
appearances (the Romanian territories and other European regions in the
fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries). [Statistiques fiscales et
statistiques demographiques, ou les fausses apparences (les Pays
Roumains et autres regions europeennes aux XVe-XIXe siecles).] Annales
de Demographie Historique, 1985. 245-80 pp. Paris, France. In Fre. with
sum. in Eng.
Available data sources concerning the historical
demography of the territories that constitute present-day Romania are
evaluated. The focus is on available fiscal data for the period from
the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. The author also examines
the problems associated with the study of historical population trends
among other European populations and proposes a method for identifying
inadequacies in the available statistical data and for resolving the
subsequent problems.
Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
