56:10508 Cordell,
Dennis D.; Gregory, Joel W. Earlier African historical
demographies. Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue Canadienne
des Etudes Africaines, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1989. 5-27 pp. Toronto, Canada.
In Eng. with sum. in Fre.
This article is an attempt to synthesize
the papers contributed to the Second International Congress of the
Society for Historical Demography and a workshop on African historical
demography held in Paris, France, in June 1987. The main themes being
pursued by researchers in African historical demography are identified,
sources of data are described, and some methods of data analysis are
outlined.
Correspondence: D. D. Cordell, Southern Methodist
University, Dallas, TX 75275. Location: Princeton University
Library (PR).
56:10509 Cordell,
Dennis D.; Ouaidou, Nassour G. The demographic history of
colonial Africa: an example of the data and some critical
comments. [La demographie historique de l'Afrique coloniale:
exemple de donnees et elements de critique.] Working Paper du CERPOD,
No. 3, Nov 1989. 29 pp. Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur la
Population pour le Developpement [CERPOD]: Bamako, Mali. In Fre.
Data that are available in the national archives of Chad on the
country's historical demography during the colonial period are
analyzed. The authors consider some general problems concerning the
use of these data and the extent to which modern methods of data
adjustment can be used to overcome them. The study concludes with a
review of perspectives for historical demographic research in the Sahel
countries.
Correspondence: CERPOD/INSAH, BP 1530, Bamako,
Mali. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
56:10510 Guy,
Yves. Saint-Savin: the demography of a village in the
Bigorre, 1618-1975. [Saint-Savin: demographie d'un village
bigourdan, 1618-1975.] Editions du CNRS, ISBN 2-222-04012-4. 1988. 310
pp. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [CNRS], Centre
Regional de Publication de Toulouse: Midi-Pyrenees: Paris, France. In
Fre.
The demographic history of a village in the French Pyrenees
from 1618 to 1975 is presented using data from parish records and the
techniques of family reconstitution. The study examines changes in
patterns of migration, nuptiality, fertility, and mortality as well as
the demographic impact of political and other changes on the
village.
Correspondence: Editions du CNRS, 15 quai
Anatole-France, 75700 Paris, France. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
56:10511 Houdaille,
Jacques. The French nobility, 1600-1900. [La noblesse
francaise, 1600-1900.] Population, Vol. 44, No. 3, May-Jun 1989. 501-13
pp. Paris, France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng; Spa.
The demography of
the French nobility from 1600 to 1900 is analyzed based on data from a
number of published genealogies. "Age at marriage was high for men and
relatively low for women. During this 300-year period, no significant
trends could be detected. Permanent celibacy was fairly common until
the Revolution, primarily due to religious 'vocations'. The birth rate
tended to decline during the early 18th century, rose again during the
Revolution, and then remained high until approximately 1840. Mortality
rates could only be estimated for adults. These were lower than among
the bourgeoisie, but their fall during the late 18th century was less
pronounced."
Correspondence: J. Houdaille, Institut
National d'Etudes Demographiques, 27 rue du Commandeur, 75675 Paris
Cedex 14, France. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
56:10512 Husbands,
Chris. Regional change in a pre-industrial economy:
wealth and population in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries. Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 13, No. 4, Oct
1987. 345-59 pp. New York, New York/London, England. In Eng.
Centrally generated fiscal data, including the 1524-1525 lay
subsidy returns and the hearth taxes of the 1660s and 1670s, are used
to analyze patterns of long-term change in the regional distribution of
population and wealth in the economy of early modern England. The
focus is on the consequences of urban development and
proto-industrialization. The author concludes that existing theories
of spatial change in the early modern economy do not adequately explain
the events described.
Correspondence: C. Husbands, 17
Beatrice Road, Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich NR1 4BB, England.
Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
56:10513 Igartua,
Jose E.; Bouchard, Gerard; Charbonneau, Hubert; Gagan, David; Darroch,
Gordon; Gaffield, Chad. Historical databases: the
Canadian experience for the past fifteen years. [Les bases de
donnees historiques: l'experience canadienne depuis quinze ans.]
Histoire Sociale/Social History, Vol. 21, No. 42, Nov 1988. 283-317 pp.
Ottawa, Canada. In Eng; Fre.
These are the texts of six papers in
English or French, which were presented at a Round Table on Historical
Databases (Management Systems) held in Windsor, Ontario, in 1988, as
part of the annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association.
"After an introduction by Jose E. Igartua, organizer and president of
the Round Table, papers are presented by Gerard Bouchard and Hubert
Charbonneau, who have worked extensively with demographic data from
church records; by David Gagan and Gordon Darroch, who have pursued
questions of social history in manuscript census returns; and by Chad
Gaffield, who has contributed to a regional history project based on a
theory of global access (a characteristic related to Bouchard's own
regional project). While the first four papers offer reflections based
on previous experience, Gaffield's discussion focuses on the larger
potential of computerization for historical research in the Information
Age."
Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
56:10514 John, A.
Meredith. The plantation slaves of Trinidad, 1783-1816: a
mathematical and demographic enquiry. ISBN 0-521-36166-4. LC
88-25652. 1988. xvi, 259 pp. Cambridge University Press: New York, New
York/Cambridge, England. In Eng.
This is a demographic and
mathematical analysis of the plantation slave population of Trinidad
using data from the Trinidad Slave Registers of 1813, 1815, and 1816,
which include information on 17,087 slaves. The main aim of the study
is to draw plausible upper and lower bounds of slave mortality and
fertility by resolving the problems posed by errors in the available
data. Following an introduction and description of the study
population during a review of the history of Trinidad, the process of
collecting slave registration data in 1813 and the characteristics of
the population are described. Next, the methods used to analyze slave
mortality and fertility are outlined, and the results of the analysis
are presented. The final chapter addresses four questions. "First, how
high was plantation slave mortality? Second, was plantation slave
fertility high or low? Third, was there demographic evidence that
slaves were smuggled into Trinidad in 1812 and 1813? And finally, did
the plantation slave population of Trinidad have the long-run potential
to reproduce itself?"
Correspondence: Cambridge University
Press, Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RP, England.
Location: Population Council Library, New York, NY.
56:10515 Klepp,
Susan E. Symposium on the demographic history of the
Philadelphia region, 1600-1860. Proceedings of the American
Philosophical Society, Vol. 133, No. 2, Jun 1989. [254] pp. American
Philosophical Society: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In Eng.
This is
a collection of 19 papers by various authors on aspects of the
historical demography of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, region of the
United States from 1600 to 1860.
Correspondence: American
Philosophical Society, 104 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA
19106-3387. Location: New York Public Library.
56:10516 Kovacsics,
Joseph. A description of Hungarian research in historical
demography. [Chronique des recherches hongroises en demographie
historique.] Annales de Demographie Historique, 1988. 363-76 pp. Paris,
France. In Fre.
A review is provided of developments in historical
demographic research in Hungary over the course of the present century.
Particular attention is given to the data sources
available.
Correspondence: J. Kovacsics, V. Vaci- utca 40,
1056 Budapest, Hungary. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
56:10517 McCaa,
Robert. Conference on the Population History of Latin
America: a report and paper abstracts. Latin American Population
History Newsletter, No. 16, Fall 1989. 2-10 pp. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
In Eng.
The author reports on a conference on the population
history of Latin America, held in Ouro Preto, Brazil, July 2-6, 1989.
The five main topics covered are spatial distribution; the components
of population growth; marriage, family formation, and fertility; slave
populations; and population and the economy. Summaries of the 51
papers presented at the conference are
included.
Correspondence: R. McCaa, University of
Minnesota, Department of History, Social Science Tower No. 614,
Minneapolis, MN 55455. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
56:10518 McDonald,
John; Shlomowitz, Ralph. Mortality on immigrant voyages to
Australia in the 19th century. Explorations in Economic History,
Vol. 27, No. 1, Jan 1990. 84-113 pp. Duluth, Minnesota. In Eng.
Mortality trends among seaboard migrants to Australia during the
nineteenth century are analyzed using data from official colonial
statistical sources. The authors "calculate monthly death rates for
various age classes and use novel regression techniques to estimate the
correlates of mortality. For adults, the main characteristics
associated with mortality were length of voyage and degree of crowding.
For children and infants, these characteristics were even more highly
associated with mortality, as was the tonnage of the vessel. The
analysis highlights the special dangers faced by infants from
infectious diseases aboard ship."
Correspondence: J.
McDonald, Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, South
Australia 5042, Australia. Location: Princeton University
Library (PF).
56:10519 Thibon,
Christian. The growth of population in the great lakes
region during the nineteenth century. [L'expansion du peuplement
dans la region des grands lacs au XIX siecle.] Canadian Journal of
African Studies/Revue Canadienne des Etudes Africaines, Vol. 23, No. 1,
1989. 54-72 pp. Toronto, Canada. In Fre. with sum. in Eng.
"At the
turn of the twentieth century, the [region surrounding the great lakes
of Eastern Africa] had a population distributed like 'leopard spots'
while it occupied a space corresponding to the territorial limits of
the centralized kingdoms of Buganda, Burundi, and Rwanda. This
tendency resulted from a demographic catastrophe (1860-1920) which has
strongly differentiated the territories. The first colonial estimates
should not obscure the expansion and concentration of the population in
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This hypothesis is based on
two case studies, one of a circumscribed area, the kingdom of Burundi,
the other of a pioneering zone, the peoples of the western lakeside
area (the western banks of Lakes Tanganyka and Kivu as well as the
former Lakes Edward and George)."
Correspondence: C.
Thibon, Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, 68 rue Montpensier,
BP 576 Pau-Universite, 64010 Pau Cedex, France. Location:
Princeton University Library (PR).
56:10520 Mbodj,
Mohamed; Becker, Charles. Concerning the history of the
populations of Black Africa: some suggestions for a new approach.
[A propos de l'histoire et des populations de l'Afrique Noire:
propositions pour de nouvelles approches.] Canadian Journal of African
Studies/Revue Canadienne des Etudes Africaines, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1989.
40-53 pp. Toronto, Canada. In Fre. with sum. in Eng.
"This article
examines the sources of information about the historical demography of
Senegambia, the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the size of the
West African population, and the demographic situation during the
colonial period. The conclusion considers the importance of the
historical dimension and the dangers of a purely formal and
quantitative approach to the study of present-day African
populations."
Correspondence: M. Mbodj, Universite Cheikh
Anta Diop, Dakar-Fann, Senegal. Location: Princeton University
Library (PR).
56:10521 Mineau,
Geraldine P.; Bean, Lee L.; Anderton, Douglas L.
Description and evaluation of linkage of the 1880 census to family
genealogies: implications for Utah fertility research. Historical
Methods, Vol. 22, No. 4, Fall 1989. 144-57 pp. Washington, D.C. In Eng.
"In this article we summarize the methods and present the initial
results from a linkage of [U.S.] genealogical records from the Mormon
Historical Demography Project (MHDP) to records from the 1880
Manuscript Census of Utah Territory. Our primary objective is to
recount the linkage methods involved and to evaluate the
representativeness of the genealogical records as reflected in the
correspondence between longitudinal and census data." The data sets
concern population characteristics, household size, family
characteristics, and fertility.
Correspondence: G. P.
Mineau, University of Utah, Department of Sociology, Salt Lake City, UT
84112. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
56:10522 Polyakov,
Yu. A. Problems of historical demography in the USSR: a
collection of scholarly works. [Problemy istoricheskoi demografii
SSSR: sbornik nauchnykh trudov.] ISBN 5-12-000131-9. LC 88-146280.
1988. 164 pp. Naukova Dumka: Kiev, USSR. In Rus.
This is a
collection of studies by various authors on methodological aspects of
historical demography and on related issues concerning the
establishment and development of historical demographic studies in the
USSR. Many of the studies focus on the relations among demographic,
social, and ethnic issues.
Correspondence: Naukova Dumka,
ul. Repina 3, 352601 Kiev, USSR. Location: U.S. Library of
Congress, Washington, D.C.
56:10523 Societa
Italiana di Demografia Storica [SIDES] (Bologna, Italy).
The use of the personal computer in historical demographic
research. [Utilizzazione del personal computer nelle ricerche di
demografia storica.] Bollettino di Demografia Storica, No. 9, 1989. 143
pp. Bologna, Italy. In Ita.
These are the proceedings of a
symposium on the use of the personal computer in historical demographic
research, held in Teramo, Italy, October 7-8, 1988. The publication
consists of 15 papers by various authors. The emphasis is on the
application of personal computers to this type of research using a
variety of Italian sources of data.
Correspondence: Aurora
Angeli, SIDES, Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, Via Belle Arti 41,
40126 Bologna, Italy. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
