55:10566 Anderson,
Michael. Population change in North-western Europe,
1750-1850. Studies in Economic and Social History, ISBN
0-333-34386-7. 1988. 94 pp. Macmillan Education: Basingstoke, England.
In Eng.
The author reviews some of the debates and controversies
that have arisen over the past 20 years concerning population dynamics
in northwestern Europe. The focus is on the reasons the population
doubled over this period and some of the implications of this growth.
Separate chapters are included on data sources and methodology,
migration, natural increase, fertility and nuptiality, mortality,
population and resources, and economic and social implications. The
study is one in a series designed to summarize technical subjects for
the general reader.
Correspondence: Macmillan Education,
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS, England.
Location: Princeton University Library (FST).
55:10567 Boyer,
George R. Malthus was right after all: poor relief and
birth rates in Southeastern England. Journal of Political Economy,
Vol. 97, No. 1, Feb 1989. 93-114 pp. Chicago, Illinois. In Eng.
"The payment of child allowances to laborers with large families
was widespread in early nineteenth-century England. This paper tests
Thomas Malthus's hypothesis that child allowances caused the birth rate
to increase. A cross-sectional regression model is estimated to explain
variations in birth rates across parishes in 1826-30. Birth rates are
found to be related to child allowances, income, and the availability
of housing, as Malthus contended. The paper concludes by examining the
role played by the adoption of child allowances after 1795 in the
fertility increase of the early nineteenth
century."
Correspondence: G. R. Boyer, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY 14853. Location: Princeton University Library
(PF).
55:10568
Charbonneau, Hubert; Desjardins, Bertrand. The
measurement of differential descent among the founders of the core of
French Canadians, using data from the population register of old
Quebec. [Mesure de la descendance differentielle des fondateurs de
la souche canadienne-francaise a partir du registre de population du
Quebec ancien.] Collection de Tires a Part, Vol. 237, [1987]. [12] pp.
Universite de Montreal, Departement de Demographie: Montreal, Canada.
In Fre. with sum. in Eng.
The authors examine the differential
lineages of the founders of the French Canadian population using data
from the computerized population registers developed by the Research
Program in Historical Demography at the University of Montreal. The
results show that the main factor affecting the number of dependents
among the population's founders was nuptiality.
This paper is
reprinted from Revue, Informatique et Statistique dans les Sciences
Humaines, Vol. 23, Nos. 1-4, 1987, pp.
9-20.
Correspondence: Departement de Demographie,
Universite de Montreal, Case Postale 6128, Succursale A, Montreal,
Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
55:10569 Dupaquier,
Jacques; Le Mee, Rene; Goy, Joseph; Garden, Maurice; Le Bras, Herve;
Lepetit, Bernard; Poussou, Jean-Pierre; Courgeau, Daniel; Bardet,
Jean-Pierre; Bideau, Alain; Biraben, Jean-Noel; Leonard, Jacques;
Lecuyer, Bernard; Bourdelais, Patrice; Fine, Agnes; Segalen, Martine;
Charbit, Yves; Bejin, Andre. The history of the French
population. Part 3: from 1789 to 1914. [Histoire de la
population francaise. 3: de 1789 a 1914.] ISBN 2-13-041928-3. 1988.
554 pp. Presses Universitaires de France: Paris, France. In Fre.
This is the third in a planned series of four volumes on the
history of the population of France. It is concerned with the period
from the French Revolution up to the outbreak of World War I. Chapters
are included on data sources, the demographic impact of the Revolution,
population dynamics, migration, population characteristics, mortality,
the fertility decline, family and marriage, and demographic theory of
the period. A final chapter considers the population of France in
1914.
For Part 1, also published in 1988, see 54:30545.
Correspondence: Presses Universitaires de France, 108
Boulevard Saint-Germain, 75006 Paris, France. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
55:10570 Gerhan,
David R.; Wells, Robert V. A retrospective bibliography of
American demographic history from colonial times to 1983.
Bibliographies and Indexes in American History, No. 10, ISBN
0-313-23130-3. LC 88-32348. 1989. xxvi, 474 pp. Greenwood Press:
Westport, Connecticut/London, England. In Eng.
This bibliography
contains over 3,800 unannotated citations to published materials on
American demographic history. It is the first of two planned volumes
and includes material published up to 1983. The citations are
organized alphabetically by author under the following major topics:
general background; marriage and fertility; illegitimacy and bridal
pregnancy; health and death; migration, pluralism, and local patterns;
family and demographic history; and population, economics, politics,
and society. Author, place, and subject indexes are
included.
Correspondence: Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road
West, Westport, CT 06881. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
55:10571 Guinnane,
Timothy W. Migration, marriage, and household formation:
the Irish at the turn of the century. Pub. Order No. DA8800945.
1987. 382 pp. University Microfilms International: Ann Arbor, Michigan.
In Eng.
"This dissertation explores selected aspects of Irish
demographic behavior, both among the Irish in Ireland and among those
who migrated to the United States. The primary empirical source is a
sample of households drawn by the author from the Irish manuscript
censuses of 1901 and 1911....The American component of the study is
based largely on the Public Use Sample of the 1900 Federal Census of
the United States. The dissertation draws on recent innovations in the
economic theory of the household, a simple framework for the economic
analysis of marriage, and new developments in the statistical
methodology of waiting-time analysis to refine and test hypotheses
advanced to explain Irish behavior....Explicit tests of the role of
Irish culture in Irish demographic behavior, performed by comparing
Irish-Americans to other Americans, cast doubt on the importance of a
distinctive Irish culture in Irish demographic behavior. These
findings for Ireland underscore the complexity of opportunities in
life-cycle events such as marriage and migration, and invite
reinterpretation of demographic behavior in other times and
places."
This work was prepared as a doctoral dissertaion at
Stanford University.
Correspondence: University Microfilms
International, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, A: Humanities
and Social Sciences 48(11).
55:10572 Hinrichs,
Ernst; van Zon, Henk. Comparative population history:
studies of the Netherlands and northwest Germany.
[Bevolkerungsgeschichte im Vergleich: Studien zu den Niederlanden und
Nordwestdeutschland.] Forschungsinstitut fur den Friesischen
Kustenraum: Beitrage und Ergebnisse der Kolloquien, ISBN
3-925365-33-8. 1988. 104 pp. Ostfriesische Landschaft: Aurich, Germany,
Federal Republic of. In Ger.
This publication contains six papers
presented at a conference on the comparative demographic history of the
Netherlands and northwest Germany, held in December 1985 in Aurich,
Federal Republic of Germany. Topics covered include demographic trends
and property relations in Wold-Oldambt, Groningen, from 1630 to 1730;
the social and demographic system during proto-industrialization in
Ravensburg; the study of names as an aid to historical demographic
research; socio-historical migration research; sources for the history
of migration, especially labor migration, between Germany and the
Netherlands from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries; and
sources for quantifying migration from Emsland and Osnabruck to the
Netherlands in the first half of the nineteenth
century.
Location: New York Public Library.
55:10573 Imhof,
Arthur E. From an insecure to a secure lifetime: five
historical demographic studies. [Von der unsicheren zur sicheren
Lebenszeit: funf historisch-demographische Studien.] ISBN
3-534-04874-1. 1988. viii, 247 pp. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft:
Darmstadt, Germany, Federal Republic of. In Ger.
This book is a
collection of five historical demographic studies dealing with the
consequences of increased life expectancy. The papers date from 1985
and 1986. Topics covered include the effects of a longer life span on
social life; population problems in Germany and Brazil in the past,
present, and future; individualism and life expectancy in Japan;
premature death in Australia and New Zealand; and reflections by a
European historical demographer in Brazil.
Location: New
York Public Library.
55:10574 Kaldy-Nagy,
Gyula. Sixteenth century (1546-1590) records of Buda's
sanjak: demographic and economic historical data. [A budai
szandzsak 1546-1590. evi osszeirasai: demografiai es gazdasagtorteneti
adatok.] Pest Megye Multjabol, No. 6, ISBN 963-01-6184-2. 1985. 746 pp.
Egyetemi Nyomda: Budapest, Hungary. In Hun.
Demographic and other
socioeconomic data concerning sixteenth-century Hungary are analyzed.
The data are from Turkish sanjak censuses that were conducted between
1546-1590 primarily for record and tax purposes.
Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
55:10575 Livi Bacci,
Massimo. Population and food: an essay on European
demographic history. [Popolazione e alimentazione: saggio sulla
storia demografica europea.] Universale Paperbacks il Mulino, No. 210,
ISBN 88-15-01522-1. 1987. 173 pp. Il Mulino: Bologna, Italy. In Ita.
The interdependence of nutrition and population factors in European
demographic history is explored. Chapters are included on population
growth; energy, nutrition, and survival; hunger and privation; the
starving and the well-fed; nutrition and the standard of living; and
conflict and adaptability. The study throws doubt on hypotheses that
link nutritional factors directly to mortality, and indicates that the
primary factor affecting the rate of population growth was the
biological capacity to adapt to changing epidemiological conditions in
the face of food shortages.
Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
55:10576 McQuillan,
Kevin. The course of demographic change in the Bas-Rhin:
1811-1870. Population Studies Centre Discussion Paper, No. 87-12,
Dec 1987. 18, [14] pp. University of Western Ontario, Population
Studies Centre: London, Canada; University of Western Ontario, Centre
for Canadian Population Studies: London, Canada. In Eng.
The author
discusses demographic change in lower Alsace, France, in the period
1811-1870. Topics considered include marriage patterns and their
effect on fertility, mortality, birth rate fluctuations, contraceptive
usage, differences between urban and rural areas, and the impact of
religion on fertility. Data are from the 1851 census and vital
statistics of a sample of 30 communes.
Correspondence:
Population Studies Centre, Department of Sociology, University of
Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Canada. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
55:10577 Saito,
Osamu; Tomobe, Ken'ichi. An analysis of Edo townsmen's
marriage and fertility behavior in the Restoration period: a study on
the basis of family registrations in Nihonbashi and Kanda.
Jinkogaku Kenkyu/Journal of Population Studies, No. 11, May 1988. 59-62
pp. Tokyo, Japan. In Jpn.
Marriage and fertility patterns among men
in the city of Edo (present-day Tokyo) from 1860 to 1900 are analyzed
using data from family registers. Consideration is given to the
relationships among marriage age, fertility, and social class.
Comparisons are made with Osaka and a representative rural
district.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
55:10578 Simon,
Julian L.; Sullivan, Richard J. Population size, knowledge
stock, and other determinants of agricultural publication and
patenting: England, 1541-1850. Explorations in Economic History,
Vol. 26, No. 1, Jan 1989. 21-44 pp. Duluth, Minnesota. In Eng.
The
authors "present a model of the invention-innovation process, with
application to the technological development of English agriculture
between 1541 and 1850. From this model we derive a reduced-form
equation that explains the amount of invention in farming. Using the
number of titles of didactic books published on farming techniques and
the number of agricultural patents issued as alternate measures of
invention, we estimate the reduced-form equation. Population,
accumulated technology, and fluctuations in food prices are significant
explanatory variables. We argue that periods of rapid population
growth were also periods of rapid technological advance."
This is a
revised version of a paper originally presented at the 1986 Annual
Meeting of the Population Association of America (see Population Index,
Vol. 52, No. 3, Fall 1986, pp. 429-30).
Correspondence: J.
L. Simon, College of Business and Management, University of Maryland,
Adelphi, MD 20783. Location: Princeton University Library
(PF).
55:10579 Williamson,
Jeffrey G. Migrant selectivity, urbanization, and
industrial revolutions. Population and Development Review, Vol.
14, No. 2, Jun 1988. 287-314, 378-80 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
with sum. in Fre; Spa.
"During England's urbanization over the
century 1776-1871, immigration played a far greater role than it has in
the countries of the Third World. Owing to the concentration of
immigrants in the age group 15-29 years, dependency rates were far
lower in the cities than in the countryside, while labor participation
rates were higher. This young-adult selectivity bias diminished the
requirements for factor transfers between lagging agricultural areas
and booming industrial centers and augmented the ability of cities to
save while lowering their relief burdens. In time it also enabled
cities to satisfy their growing labor force requirements through
natural increase, thus diminishing their need for more
immigrants."
Correspondence: J. G. Williamson, Department
of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
55:10580 Wrigley, E.
A. People, cities and wealth: the transformation of
traditional society. ISBN 0-631-13991-5. LC 86-26394. 1987. x, 348
pp. Basil Blackwell: New York, New York/Oxford, England. In Eng.
This is a collection of essays by the same author, many of which
have been previously published, on the development of Western Europe
over the past 500 years and its difference from trends in other
cultures. The author attempts to integrate the economic, social, and
demographic interpretations of major events in early modern Europe into
models of this change. One section is concerned with the phenomenon of
urban growth in England. The final section focuses on population and
includes chapters on fertility strategies for the individual and the
group, the growth of population in eighteenth-century England, family
limitation in preindustrial England, and the decline in marital
fertility in nineteenth-century France.
Location: Princeton
University Library (UES).
55:10581 Feng,
Wang. Historical demography in China: review and
perspective. IUSSP Newsletter/Bulletin de Liaison, No. 34, Sep-Dec
1988. 51-69 pp. Liege, Belgium. In Eng.
"This paper argues that the
development of historical demography in China will not only contribute
greatly to our understanding of the particular population and social
development dynamics in China, but will also enhance our understanding
of the role of population for social and economic development in
general....After a review of the recent development of population
studies in China, this paper will review the current state of Chinese
historical demography and examine some research issues and data sources
which can help broaden the horizons of population research in
China."
Correspondence: W. Feng, Sociology Department,
Peking University, Hai Dian, Beijing, China. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
55:10582 van Vianen,
H. A. W. Past population: a critique of back
projection. In: Profession: demographer. Ten population studies
in honour of F. H. A. G. Zwart, edited by B. van Norren and H. A. W.
van Vianen. 1988. 117-25 pp. Geo Pers: Groningen, Netherlands. In Eng.
The author examines the validity of the Back Projection method
developed by Wrigley and Schofield. "It [is] shown that the system of
equations is underidentified and therefore has no unique solution.
Additional conditions [that] are necessary and a number of constraints
proposed in the literature are discussed....An alternative procedure is
presented that uses the results of family reconstruction studies
and...[circumvents] some of the objections
raised."
Correspondence: H. A. W. van Vianen, University of
Groningen, P.O. Box 72, 9700 AB Groningen, Netherlands.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
