55:30554 Bonfield,
Lloyd; Smith, Richard M.; Wrightson, Keith. The world we
have gained: histories of population and social structure. Essays
presented to Peter Laslett on his seventieth birthday. ISBN
0-631-13871-4. LC 85-25466. 1986. x, 421 pp. Basil Blackwell: New York,
New York/Oxford, England. In Eng.
This collection of 15 studies by
various authors concerns aspects of historical demography associated
with the work of Peter Laslett. The essays range back in time as far
as the fourteenth century and span topics as diverse but demonstrably
interconnected as internal migration, family structure and employment,
marriage and widowhood, inheritance and remarriage, the determinants of
marital fertility, maternal mortality, and illegitimacy. Data sources
include wills, tithing lists, manorial court rolls, parish registers of
various types, and family reconstitutions, as well as contemporary
works and documents. The geographical focus is primarily on England,
but individual studies are concerned with Sweden and Italy.
Selected
items will be cited in this or subsequent issues of Population
Index.
Correspondence: Basil Blackwell, 108 Cowley Road,
Oxford OX4 1JF, England. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
55:30555 Boswell,
John. The kindness of strangers: the abandonment of
children in Western Europe from late antiquity to the Renaissance.
ISBN 0-394-57240-8. LC 88-42544. 1988. xviii, 488 pp. Pantheon Books:
New York, New York. In Eng.
The abandonment of children in Europe
from Roman times to the late Middle Ages is explored. The author
concludes that this practice was frequently resorted to and that it
represented the most feasible means of family limitation when other
methods were either ineffective or prohibited. Other determining
factors cited were reduction in the number of heirs, desire to change
the sex ratio of children, and opportunity to give unwanted children to
families or institutions where they would be more valued. Data are
from a range of historical and literary
sources.
Correspondence: Pantheon Books, 201 East 50th
Street, New York, NY 10022. Location: Princeton University
Library (FST).
55:30556 Brandstrom,
Anders; Tedebrand, Lars-Goran. Society, health and
population during the demographic transition. Umea University
Demographic Data Base Report, No. 4, ISBN 91-22-01216-8. 1988. 514 pp.
Almqvist and Wiksell International: Stockholm, Sweden. In Eng.
These are the proceedings of a conference held at Umea University,
Sweden, August 18-21, 1986, on the determinants of changes in mortality
and morbidity during the demographic transition. Included are 28
papers by various authors that were presented at six sessions. The
sessions were organized under the topics of infant, child, and maternal
mortality; causes of death and classification of diseases; urban
disease and mortality; society and medicine; health and nutrition; and
changes and patterns in rural mortality. The primary geographical focus
is on Europe, with particular emphasis on
Scandinavia.
Correspondence: Almqvist and Wiksell
International, Drottninggt 108, Box 45150, S-104 30 Stockholm, Sweden.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
55:30557 Brun,
J.-P. The enumerations in the Hautes-Alpes department in
the eighteenth century. [Les denombrements dans le departement des
Hautes-Alpes au XVIIIe siecle.] DH: Bulletin d'Information, No. 53,
Nov 1988. 8-22 pp. Paris, France. In Fre.
Available sources of data
concerning the population of the Hautes-Alpes department of France in
the eighteenth century are described. The reliability of these sources
is assessed.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
55:30558 Crenshaw,
Edward. The demographic regime of Western Europe in the
early modern period: a review of literature. Journal of Family
History, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1989. 177-89 pp. Greenwich,
Connecticut/London, England. In Eng.
"Research conducted on the
historical demography of Western Europe contradicts the classic theory
of demographic transition. Contrary to the emphasis on mortality in
transition theory, work by Wrigley, Schofield, Goldstone, and others
points to fertility in general, and age at marriage and the incidence
of marriage in particular, as the critical determinants of population
size, structure, and growth in the early modern period. Recent
theories link occupational and industrial structures to the historical
fertility regime of [northern and] western Europe, and suggest that
changes in economic structure rather than changes in economic
rationality due to modernization dictated fertility patterns for this
region during this historical era."
Correspondence: E.
Crenshaw, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, NC 27514. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
55:30559 Demongeot,
Jacques; Demetrius, Lloyd. Natural selection and
demographic drift. An empirical study of France from 1860 to
1965. [Selection naturelle et derive demographique. Etude
empirique de la France de 1860 a 1965.] Population, Vol. 44, No. 1,
Jan-Feb 1989. 109-34 pp. Paris, France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng; Spa.
The authors develop a model to distinguish qualitatively between
the impact on fertility and mortality of endogenous (sociocultural and
genetic) factors and exogenous factors such as wars and epidemics. The
model is applied to French data for the period 1860-1965. "This
article reveals three episodes in the demographic evolution of France:
1) the period up to the second world war where endogenous factors
dominate; 2) the period during the three wars between France and
Germany where exogenous factors evidently are at work; 3) the period
after the second world war where exogenous factors
intervene."
Correspondence: J. Demongeot, TIM3, IMAG,
Saint-Martin-d'Heres, France. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
55:30560
Fauve-Chamoux, Antoinette; Nowak, Michelle; Synarellis,
Maroula; Vitu, Anne; Vouloir, Marie-Christine. The
population of the world before 1800: Second International Conference
on Historical Demography. [Le peuplement du monde avant 1800:
2eme Congres international de demographie historique.] DH: Bulletin
d'Information, No. 49, Jun 1987. 162 pp. Societe de Demographie
Historique: Paris, France. In Eng; Fre; Spa.
This publication is a
product of the Second International Conference on Historical Demography
organized by the Societe de Demographie Historique, which was held in
Paris in 1987. The conference included sessions on the use of
hemotypology in historical demography; the population of continents in
history, including China, the Indian subcontinent, Africa, and the
Americas; and a roundtable on the population of Africa. Reports from
sessions and summaries of selected papers, which are in English,
French, or Spanish, are also included.
Correspondence:
Societe de Demographie Historique, 54 boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris,
France. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
55:30561 Lothe,
Jean. Population dynamics in Metz under the revolution and
the empire: growth or recovery? [Variation de la population de
Metz sous la revolution et l'empire: accroissement ou recuperation?]
DH: Bulletin d'Information, No. 52, Jun 1989. 35-51 pp. Paris, France.
In Fre.
The author examines the demographic impact of the French
Revolution and of the subsequent empire of Napoleon I on the city of
Metz, France.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
55:30562 Martin,
Jean-Clement. The mysterious disappearances of the
population of the Vendee. [Les disparitions mysterieuses de la
population de la Vendee.] DH: Bulletin d'Information, No. 52, Jun
1989. 20-34 pp. Paris, France. In Fre.
Problems involved in
estimating population losses in the Vendee region of France during the
revolutionary period are discussed.
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
55:30563 McCaa,
Robert. The female population of Chile, 1855-1964: a
microcomputer balance sheet method. Latin American Population
History Newsletter, No. 15, Spring 1989. 9-14 pp. Minneapolis,
Minnesota. In Eng.
This article summarizes the essential features
of the inverse projection method and applies it to data on the female
population of Chile for the period 1855-1964. Changes in age
distribution, vital rates, life expectancy, fertility, and gross and
net reproduction rates over time are
described.
Correspondence: R. McCaa, Department of History,
University of Minnesota, Social Science Tower #614, Minneapolis, MN
55455. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
55:30564 Poos, L.
R. Population turnover in medieval Essex: the evidence of
some early-fourteenth-century tithing lists. In: The world we have
gained: histories of population and social structure, edited by Lloyd
Bonfield, Richard M. Smith, and Keith Wrightson. 1986. 1-22 pp. Basil
Blackwell: New York, New York/Oxford, England. In Eng.
The author
estimates crude rates of population turnover in communities in
fourteenth-century Essex by comparing the names on series of dated
tithing lists. Princeton West model stable populations with extreme
life expectancies for men of 21 and 39 years and an annual growth rate
of -0.5 percent are used first to provide estimates of the total size
of the population on the basis of the model ratio of males aged 12 and
older to the total population, and then to suggest the extent to which
the crude turnover rates reflect short-term migration rather than vital
events.
Correspondence: L. R. Poos, Catholic University of
America, 620 Michigan Avenue NE, Washington, D.C. 20064.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
55:30565 Rose,
Jerome C. Biological consequences of segregation and
economic deprivation: a post-slavery population from southwest
Arkansas. Journal of Economic History, Vol. 49, No. 2, Jun 1989.
351-60 pp. Wilmington, Delaware. In Eng.
The author examines the
biological consequences of segregation and economic deprivation of
blacks through analysis of 80 skeletons interred in Cedar Grove,
Arkansas, between 1890 and 1927. The physical data is compared "with
historic accounts and interpretations of textual data. The high
frequencies of skeletal lesions indicating dietary deficiencies and
infectious disease demonstrates that this was a highly stressed
population and that Cedar Grove participated in the historically
documented nationwide decline of Afro-American health. The evidence is
overwhelming that congenital syphilis was a major contributor to high
infant mortality and population decline."
Correspondence:
J. C. Rose, Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, AR 72701. Location: Princeton University
Library (PF).
55:30566 Ruggiero,
Alain. A note on the population of the County of Nice
during the revolutionary period. [Note sur la population du Comte
de Nice pendant la periode revolutionnaire.] DH: Bulletin
d'Information, No. 52, Jun 1989. 3-19 pp. Paris, France. In Fre.
Population dynamics in the County of Nice during the French
revolutionary period are analyzed. The author discusses problems with
existing data sources. Consideration is also given to the impact of
political events and war on mortality.
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
55:30567 Todorov,
Nikolaj; Velkov, Asparuh. The demographic situation in the
Balkan Peninsula (the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the
sixteenth centuries). [Situation demographique de la Peninsule
balkanique (fin du XVe s.-debut du XVIe s.).] 1988. 310 pp. Academie
Bulgare des Sciences, Institut d'Etudes Balkaniques: Sofia, Bulgaria.
In Fre; Ara. with sum. in Eng.
This work is based on Ottoman
sources, primarily on a document of the fifteenth century preserved in
the Oriental Department of the Cyril and Methodius National Library in
Sofia, Bulgaria (catalog number OAK 214/5), which is the register of
the Christian population of the Balkans paying the poll tax in
1490-1491. The spatial and ethnic distribution of the population in
the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries is the main topic
covered in the study. Consideration is also given to the level of
assimilation of the local population over time into the Islamic Turkish
population. The complete text of the document is given in Arabic,
together with a French translation.
Correspondence:
Izdatelstvo na BAN, Pechatnitsa na Izdatelstvoto na BAN, 1113 Sofia, ya
Akad. G Bonchev 61.6, Bulgaria. Location: Princeton University
Library (FST).
55:30568 Palli, Kh.
E. Demographic processes in the past: methods of
obtaining and processing information. [Demograficheskie protsessy
v proshlom: metody polucheniya i obrabotki informatsii.] In: Metody
issledovaniya, edited by A. G. Vishnevskii. 1986. 34-44, 181 pp. Mysl':
Moscow, USSR. In Rus. with sum. in Eng.
The author describes the
principal sources of historical demographic data in the USSR. Special
attention is given to methods of obtaining data from parish registers,
using the example of Estonia from the seventeenth to the nineteenth
century.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
