57:40529 Armelagos,
George J.; Goodman, Alan H.; Jacobs, Kenneth H. The
origins of agriculture: population growth during a period of declining
health. Population and Environment, Vol. 13, No. 1, Fall 1991.
9-22 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
The authors examine the
effects of mortality from disease and poor nutrition on the growth of
prehistoric populations. "The increase in the Neolithic human
population following the development of agriculture has been assumed to
result from improvements in health and nutrition. Recent research
demonstrates that this assumption is incorrect. With the development
of sedentism and the intensification of agriculture, there is an
increase in infectious disease and nutritional deficiencies
particularly affecting infants and children. Declining health probably
increased mortality among infants, children and oldest adults.
However, the productive and reproductive core would have been able to
respond to this increase in mortality by reducing birth spacing. That
is, agricultural populations increased in size, despite higher
mortality, because intervals between births became
shorter."
Correspondence: G. J. Armelagos, University of
Florida, Department of Anthropology, Gainesville, FL 32611.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:40530 Bessmertny,
Youri. European demographic history: the current state of
research in the USSR. [La demographie historique de l'Europe:
l'etat des recherches en U.R.S.S.] Annales de Demographie Historique,
1990. 411-22 pp. Paris, France. In Fre.
Current Soviet research on
the historical demography of Russia and the USSR is reviewed in this
paper, which is translated from the original Russian by Colette
Stoianov.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:40531 Decker,
Jody F. Depopulation of the Northern Plains natives.
Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 33, No. 4, 1991. 381-93 pp. Elmsford,
New York/Oxford, England. In Eng.
"Nine major epidemics of acute
infectious diseases swept the Northern Plains of the Western Interior
of Canada between 1774 and 1839. The Blackfeet, Plains Cree and
Assiniboin, Atsina and Saulteaux who exploited the Plains were
differentially exposed to these epidemics of smallpox, measles,
whooping cough and influenza. Mortality estimates from these epidemics
were used in assessing the degree to which a series of epidemics
contributed to depopulation of the Plains Natives. A criteria was
established to determine an epidemic from a depopulation epidemic,
which involved among other factors, the determination of age-selective
mortality. The analysis concludes that despite the fact [that] several
Native groups exploited, and in some cases co-resided in a similar
ecological area, they suffered differential mortality and depopulation
rates."
Correspondence: J. F. Decker, Queen's University,
Department of Geography, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada.
Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
57:40532
Fauve-Chamoux, Antoinette. The status of the
elderly in the Pyrenean family during the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. [Starosc w rodach pirenejskich w XVIII i XIX wieku.]
Przeszlosc Demograficzna Polski, No. 18, 1991. 149-63 pp. Warsaw,
Poland. In Pol. with sum. in Eng.
The author examines the status of
the elderly in the Pyrenees region of France in the late eighteenth and
early nineteenth centuries. It is noted that despite the effects of
demographic aging, the civil code, and rural migration on the systems
of inheritance and the customs of family life, family elders maintained
a high sociocultural status.
Correspondence: A.
Fauve-Chamoux, 2 rue Emile Faguet, 75014 Paris, France.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:40533 Ferrer
Alos, Llorenc. Family, church, and marriage in the
prosperous rural areas of Catalonia (eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries). [Familia, iglesia y matrimonio en el campesinado
acomodado catalan (siglos XVIII-XIX).] Boletin de la Asociacion de
Demografia Historica, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1991. 27-64 pp. Madrid, Spain. In
Spa.
An analysis of the relationships among family, the Catholic
church, and marriage in Catalonia, Spain, in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries is presented. The data concern the region of
Artes and the prosperous family of Vila de
Soler.
Correspondence: L. Ferrer Alos, Universidad de
Barcelona, Gran Via de Las Cortes Catalanes 585, 08007 Barcelona,
Spain. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:40534 Gadoury,
Lorraine. Demographic behavior and marriages of the
nobility of New France. [Comportements demographiques et alliances
de la noblesse de Nouvelle-France.] Annales de Demographie Historique,
1990. 259-83 pp. Paris, France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng.
Demographic behavior, including marriage patterns, among the French
nobility in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Quebec, Canada, is
examined. Data are from a reconstruction of noble families from the
vital statistics of French Canada up to 1765. Distinct patterns of
demographic behavior are identified that distinguish this population
from the population of Quebec as a whole and that are similar to
demographic behavior of the nobility in Europe at that
time.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:40535
Gomez-Cabrero Ortiz, Angel; Fernandez de la Iglesia, Maria
S. Family and fertility in Mocejon (1660-1719). A
reconstitution of families. [Familia y fecundidad en Mocejon
(1660-1719). Una reconstruccion de familias.] Boletin de la Asociacion
de Demografia Historica, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1991. 65-88 pp. Madrid, Spain.
In Spa.
The authors examine nuptiality, family characteristics, and
fertility in the central Spanish village of Mocejon in the late
seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:40536 Gorny,
Marek. Parish registers of Szaradowo in the eighteenth
century. [Rejestracja metrykalna parafii Szaradowo z XVIII wieku.]
Przeszlosc Demograficzna Polski, No. 18, 1991. 117-37 pp. Warsaw,
Poland. In Pol. with sum. in Eng.
The author analyzes data from the
parish registers of Szaradowo, Poland, for the period 1720 to 1800.
Attention is given to the reconstruction of family relationships as
well as to the size and characteristics of the population as a whole.
The author also evaluates the quality and the completeness of the data
available from such registers.
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
57:40537 Horska,
Pavla. Historical demography. [Historicka
demografie.] No. 14, 1990. 218 pp. Historicky Ustav CSAV: Prague,
Czechoslovakia. In Eng; Fre.
This volume contains 13 papers by
various authors that were presented at a seminar on age and history
held in Prague, Czechoslovakia, July 3-7, 1989. The papers, which are
in English or French, examine aspects of old age in historical
demography, with studies concerning Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, France,
Russia, and the Netherlands, as well as Europe as a whole.
For a
related volume, edited by Jaroslav Purs and also published in 1989, see
elsewhere in this issue.
Correspondence: Ustav
Ceskoslovenskych a Svetovych Dejin CSAV, Komise pro Historicko
Demografii, Vysehradska 49, 128 26 Prague 2, Czechoslovakia.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:40538 Kedelski,
Mieczyslaw. The population of the Ukraine in the second
half of the eighteenth century. [Zaludnienie prawobrzeznej Ukrainy
w drugiej polowie XVIII wieku.] Przeszlosc Demograficzna Polski, No.
18, 1991. 53-91 pp. Warsaw, Poland. In Pol. with sum. in Eng.
The
population of eastern Poland and the Ukraine during the second half of
the eighteenth century is analyzed, with a focus on religion, ethnic
affiliation, and nationality.
Correspondence: M. Kedelski,
Ul. Przybyszewskiego 43a m 18, 60-356 Poznan, Poland.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:40539 Klepp,
Susan E. "The swift progress of population": a
documentary and bibliographic study of Philadelphia's growth,
1642-1859. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Vol.
187, ISBN 0-87169-187-6. LC 90-55893. 1991. iii, 344 pp. American
Philosophical Society: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In Eng.
This
publication presents the American Philosophical Society's collection of
mortality bills of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the
period 1722 to 1859. In addition, it includes a brief history of vital
statistics in Philadelphia and an annotated bibliography of sources for
the study of the city's population from 1600 to
1860.
Correspondence: American Philosophical Society, 104
South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3387. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:40540 Kuklo,
Cezary. Research problems in European historical
demography for the period 1975-1985. [Problematyka badawcza
europejskiej demografii historycznej w dziesiecioleciu 1975-1985.]
Przeszlosc Demograficzna Polski, No. 18, 1991. 93-115 pp. Warsaw,
Poland. In Pol. with sum. in Eng.
The author reviews the published
research in historical demography in Europe during the period
1975-1985. Attention is given to the principal areas of study by
country, sources of data, and the uses of
computers.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:40541 Landry,
Yves. International migration and demographic behavior.
The Canadianization of the Filles du roi in the seventeenth
century. [Migrations internationales et comportement
demographique. La canadianisation des Filles du roi au XVIIe siecle.]
Annales de Demographie Historique, 1990. 337-44 pp. Paris, France. In
Fre. with sum. in Eng.
The author analyzes the demographic behavior
of some 700 women, known as the Filles du roi, who migrated under royal
sponsorship from France to Quebec, Canada, from 1663 to 1673. The
results show how these women rapidly adapted their demographic behavior
to the new social and economic conditions prevailing in the Saint
Lawrence valley.
Correspondence: Y. Landry, Universite de
Montreal, CP 6128, Succursale A, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:40542 Poos, L.
R. A rural society after the Black Death: Essex
1350-1525. Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in
Past Time, No. 18, ISBN 0-521-38260-2. LC 90-2692. 1991. xv, 330 pp.
Cambridge University Press: New York, New York/Cambridge, England. In
Eng.
"This is a study of rural social structure in the English
county of Essex between 1350 and 1525. It seeks to understand how, in
the population collapse after the Black Death (1348-1349), a particular
economic environment affected ordinary people's lives in the areas of
migration, marriage and employment, and also contributed to patterns of
religious nonconformity, agrarian riots and unrest, and even rural
housing. The period under scrutiny is often seen as a transitional era
between 'medieval' and 'early-modern' England, but in the light of
recent advances in English historical demography this study suggests
that there was more continuity than change in some critically important
aspects of social structure in the region in question....[The study
utilizes a] wide range of original manuscript records (estate and
manorial records, taxation and criminal-court records, royal tenurial
records, and the records of church courts, wills etc.) and [applies]
current quantitative and comparative demographic
methods."
Correspondence: Cambridge University Press, Pitt
Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RP, England.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:40543 Purs,
Jaroslav. Historical demography. [Historicka
demografie.] No. 13, 1989. 276 pp. Ustav Ceskoslovenskych a Svetovych
Dejin CSAV: Prague, Czechoslovakia. In Eng; Fre.
This volume
contains 11 papers that were presented at a seminar on age and history
held in Prague, Czechoslovakia, July 3-7, 1989. The papers are
concerned with historical aspects of the age distribution in the
territories that form modern Czechoslovakia. Most of the papers are in
English, with one paper in French.
For a related volume, edited by
Pavla Horska and also published in 1989, see elsewhere in this issue.
Correspondence: Ustav Ceskoslovenskych a Svetovych Dejin
CSAV, Vysehradska 49, 128 26 Prague 2, Czechoslovakia.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:40544 Societe
Belge de Demographie (Brussels, Belgium). Historians and
populations: a book from the friends of Etienne Helin.
[Historiens et populations: liber amicorum Etienne Helin.] ISBN
2-87209-127-0. 1991. 836 pp. Academia: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. In
Eng; Fre.
This is a collection of 57 papers by various authors on
historical demographic topics prepared in honor of Etienne Helin. The
papers are grouped under seven main topics: historical demography,
growth, and methodology; natural increase and the demographic
transition; migration, founding fathers, and urbanization; regional
demography; households; health; and standard of living, culture, and
society. The papers are in English or French. The primary
geographical focuses are on Europe and North
America.
Correspondence: Academia-Erasme, 25/115 Grand'Rue,
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
57:40545 Soderberg,
Johan; Jonsson, Ulf; Persson, Christer. A stagnating
metropolis: the economy and demography of Stockholm, 1750-1850.
Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, No.
13, ISBN 0-521-39046-X. LC 90-34061. 1991. xii, 234 pp. Cambridge
University Press: New York, New York/Cambridge, England. In Eng.
"This book analyzes a peculiar phase in the history of Stockholm
that has not previously been systematically investigated. Between 1750
and 1850 the Swedish capital experienced long-term stagnation,
characterized by de-industrialization and slow population growth.
Various aspects of the economic and social history of the period are
examined in detail, including the decline of manufacturers, the causes
of the extremely high rates of mortality and extra-marital fertility,
and the distribution of economic resources. Social and spatial
patterns of poverty are described and the trends and fluctuations in
prices and real wages charted and compared with other European towns
and cities."
Correspondence: Cambridge University Press,
Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RP, England.
Location: Princeton University Library (FST).
57:40546 Underwood,
Jane H. Seasonality of vital events in a Pacific island
population. Social Biology, Vol. 38, No. 1-2, Spring-Summer 1991.
113-26 pp. Port Angeles, Washington. In Eng.
"Analyses of vital
data derived from a family record register for the native population of
Guam reveal significant variations in births, deaths, and marriages
over the period 1901-41....Marital patterns exhibit troughs associated
respectively with the Lenten period and with Christmas celebrations.
Infant and childhood deaths...[exceed] expected values during the rainy
season...when conditions are optimal for the spread of communicable and
gastrointestinal diseases. Births attain a peak in November, or at the
beginning of the more advantageous season for infant health and
survival....Comparisons of differences in these patterns among
different populations in varied environments provide unique
opportunities to evaluate causal models of interactions among
biological, sociocultural, and physioenvironmental
factors."
Correspondence: J. H. Underwood, University of
Arizona, Department of Anthropology, Tucson, AZ 85721.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:40547 Veinstein,
Gilles. Ottoman census registers: a source for
demographic history in the modern era. [Les registres de
recensement ottomans: une source pour la demographie historique a
l'epoque moderne.] Annales de Demographie Historique, 1990. 365-78 pp.
Paris, France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng.
The author describes the
data available from the census registers of the Ottoman Empire,
particularly for the end of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
These data concern regions of Eastern and Southern Europe, Asia Minor,
and the Middle East. They include information not only on married and
single males, but on ethnicity, religion, social class, and
occupation.
Correspondence: G. Veinstein, Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 54 boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris, France.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:40548 Wachowiak,
Bogdan. The peasant family in Western Pomerania in the
middle of the eighteenth century. [Rodzina chlopska na Pomorzu
Zachodnim w polowie XVIII wieku.] Przeszlosc Demograficzna Polski, No.
18, 1991. 139-48 pp. Warsaw, Poland. In Pol. with sum. in Eng.
Data
from the mill tables of the Bytow domains concerning 333 households of
the Pomeranian region of Poland in 1747 and 1748 are analyzed.
Consideration is given to sex and age distributions, household
composition, family size and structure, occupations, and social
status.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:40549 Whitmore,
Thomas M. The sixteenth century Amerindian population
collapse in the Basin of Mexico: a systems dynamics examination.
Pub. Order No. DA9107996. 1990. 352 pp. University Microfilms
International: Ann Arbor, Michigan. In Eng.
This work was prepared
as a doctoral dissertation at Clark University, Worcester,
Massachusetts.
Correspondence: University Microfilms
International, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, A: Humanities
and Social Sciences 51(10).
57:40550 Amorim,
Norberta S. B. A method of reconstituting parishes based
on Portuguese registers. [Uma metodologia de reconstituicao de
paroquias desenvolvida sobre registros portugueses.] Boletin de la
Asociacion de Demografia Historica, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1991. 7-25 pp.
Madrid, Spain. In Por.
The author describes a method of family
reconstitution using available parish registers for Portugal for the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Correspondence: N. S.
B. Amorim, Rua Paul Brandao 333, 4800 Guimaraes, Portugal.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:40551 Augustini,
Muriel. Tax lists and family records compared: the value
of data linkage. An example from a rural parish in Auvergne.
[Roles de taille et fiches de famille: interet d'un couplage des
donnees. L'exemple d'une paroisse rurale auvergnate.] Annales de
Demographie Historique, 1990. 173-98 pp. Paris, France. In Fre. with
sum. in Eng.
The value of tax lists in supplementing data from
parish records in the study of historical demography is discussed and
illustrated using eighteenth-century data from the Auvergne region of
France. Tax records are shown to be particularly useful in the study
of single persons and migrants, and in studies involving demographic
differentials by income.
Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
57:40552 Bernat i
Marti, Joan S. Time series of vital statistics and
historical demography. [Las series de los hechos vitales y la
demografia historica.] Boletin de la Asociacion de Demografia
Historica, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1991. 123-30 pp. Madrid, Spain. In Spa.
This is a report of a workshop held in Valencia, Spain, on March
1-2, 1991, concerning problems in using time series data on baptisms,
marriages, and burials for the study of historical demography. The
focus was on the records available for Spain and
Portugal.
Correspondence: J. S. Bernat i Marti, Colon 31,
Borriol (Castellon), Spain. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
57:40553 Dobyns,
Henry F. More methodological perspectives on historical
demography. Ethnohistory, Vol. 36, No. 3, Summer 1989. 285-307 pp.
Durham, North Carolina. In Eng.
The author contributes to the
debate on the demographic impact of the European exploration of the
Americas in the fifteenth century. In particular, he presents a
critique of work by Dean R. Snow and Kim M. Lanphear on the world
influenza epidemic of the mid-sixteenth century and its effect on
mortality in North America. A response by Snow and Lanphear is
included (pp. 299-307). The focus is on the appropriate methodology to
be used for such studies.
For the article by Snow and Lanphear,
published in 1988, see 54:30070.
Correspondence: H. F.
Dobyns, Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610.
Location: Princeton University Library (FST).
57:40554 Jonas,
Raymond A. Visualizing population in history: the example
of population and rural industry in Southeastern France.
Historical Methods, Vol. 24, No. 3, Summer 1991. 101-9 pp. Washington,
D.C. In Eng.
The author describes the use of computer map-making
programs to develop contour maps illustrating demographic and economic
data. Data concerning rural industrialization and the population
shifts that occurred with the expansion of the silk industry in the
French province of Isere in the late nineteenth century are used to
demonstrate the process. Some of the values and limitations of
computer mapping are considered; and suggestions for other applications
are included.
Correspondence: R. A. Jonas, University of
Washington, Department of History, Seattle, WA 98195.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:40555 McCarthy,
Justin. Factors in the analysis of the population of
Anatolia, 1800-1878. Asian and African Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1,
Mar 1987. 33-63 pp. Haifa, Israel. In Eng.
The author describes
problems in analyzing data concerning the population of Anatolia,
Turkey, before 1878. Ottoman and European data sources are discussed
and examined for population totals, disease and epidemics, general and
war-related mortality, and migration, particularly of ethnic and
religious groups.
Correspondence: J. McCarthy, University
of Louisville, 2301 South 3rd Street, Louisville, KY 40292.
Location: Princeton University Library (SY).
57:40556 Poulard,
S.; Heyer, E.; Guillemette, A.; Brunet, G. SYGAP:
software for population management and analysis. ["SYGAP": un
logiciel de gestion et d'analyse de population.] Annales de Demographie
Historique, 1990. 455-67 pp. Paris, France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng.
The authors describe a software program developed at the University
of Montreal for the management and analysis of data from population
registers. "Designed for IBM compatible equipment, it is used in
conjunction with dBase III and requires relatively little space to
operate (2.8 Mo for 8,500 individuals)."
Correspondence: S.
Poulard, Universite de Montreal, Services Informatiques, CP 6128,
Succursale A, Montreal H3C 3J7, Canada. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
