58:20562 Associacao
Brasileira de Estudos Populacionais [ABEP] (Sao Paulo, Brazil);
International Union for the Scientific Study of Population [IUSSP]
(Liege, Belgium); United Nations. Centro Latinoamericano de Demografia
[CELADE] (Santiago, Chile). History and population:
studies on Latin America. [Historia e populacao: estudos sobre a
America Latina.] CELADE Serie OI, No. 49, ISBN 85-85016-38-8. 1990. x,
308 pp. Sao Paulo, Brazil. In Por.
These are the proceedings of a
conference on the history of population developments in Latin America,
held in Ouro Preto, Brazil, July 2-6, 1989. The 30 papers included are
organized under five subject headings: the spatial distribution of
historical populations; the components of population growth;
comparative aspects of nuptiality, family formation, and fertility; the
demographic characteristics of slave populations; and population and
the economy.
Correspondence: Associacao Brasileira de
Estudos Populacionais, Av. Casper Libero 464, sala 55, 01033 Sao Paulo,
SP, Brazil. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:20563 Del Panta,
Lorenzo. Demographic development models for Italy in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: problems and hypotheses for
research. [Modelos de desarrollo demografico en Italia entre los
siglos XVIII y XIX: problemas e hipotesis de investigacion.] Boletin
de la Asociacion de Demografia Historica, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1991. 9-26 pp.
Madrid, Spain. In Spa.
The author examines regional differences in
demographic conditions in Italy from the mid-eighteenth to the late
nineteenth century. He concludes that these dissimilarities are such
that only a regional approach, as opposed to a national one, is
appropriate for the study of Italy's demographic history.
For a
previous version of this article, published in French in 1991, see
58:10529.
Correspondence: L. Del Panta, via Rimolle 5,
50010 Caldine, Florence, Italy. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
58:20564
Sanchez-Montes Gonzalez, Francisco. The population
of Granada in the seventeenth century. [La poblacion granadina en
el siglo XVII.] ISBN 84-338-0964-4. 1989. 318 pp. Universidad de
Granada, Ayuntamiento de Granada: Granada, Spain. In Spa.
Church
baptism, marriage, and burial records are used to describe the
population of Granada, Spain, during the seventeenth century. The
author enumerates the city's inhabitants by parish, giving special
consideration to minorities and to slaves and slavery. He also
delineates the three main stages in Granada's development. The first
is defined as a period of high values, the second (and longest) as a
time of great crisis, and the final stage as one of improvement. An
overall population decline for the century is
described.
Correspondence: Universidad de Granada, Servicio
de Publicaciones, Antiguo Colegio Maximo, Campus Universitario de
Cartuja, 18071 Granada, Spain. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
58:20565 Tsoulouhas,
Theofanis C. A new look at demographic and technological
changes: England, 1550 to 1839. Explorations in Economic History,
Vol. 29, No. 2, Apr 1992. 169-203 pp. Orlando, Florida. In Eng.
This paper is concerned with the relationship between population
growth and technological change in England between 1550 and 1839. "The
model developed...endogenizes technological change and urbanization and
incorporates both the rural and the urban sectors of the economy.
Regression results contrast with the findings of neo-Malthusian
approaches. Boserupian causality (demographic change determines
technological change) is found to be dominant. Exogenous mortality
changes drive the growth of population either directly or via the
fertility rate. The growth of population, in turn, drives
technological changes that support further demographic changes as a
feedback. The implications of the Boserupian causality are found to be
different in the two sectors."
Correspondence: T. C.
Tsoulouhas, University of Illinois, Department of Economics, Urbana, IL
61801. Location: Princeton University Library (PF).
58:20566 Wells,
Robert V. The population of England's colonies in America:
old English or new Americans? Population Studies, Vol. 46, No. 1,
Mar 1992. 85-102 pp. London, England. In Eng.
"In this paper growth
rates, marriage patterns, fertility, mortality, population composition
and urbanization in England and her American colonies in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are compared. The purpose is to
see whether the colonists perpetuated English demographic patterns in
the New World, or whether new environments led to new behaviour. The
results are derived from numerous local studies, often based on family
reconstitution. Taking into account regional variations in America,
colonial demographic patterns were quite different from those in the
mother country."
Correspondence: R. V. Wells, Union
College, Department of History, Schenectady, NY 12308-2365.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:20567 Ardit,
Manuel. An essay on inverse projection of the population
of Valencia (1610-1899). [Un ensayo de proyeccion inversa de la
poblacion valenciana (1610-1899).] Boletin de la Asociacion de
Demografia Historica, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1991. 27-47 pp. Madrid, Spain. In
Spa.
The author discusses the advantages of using inverse
projection methods to reconstruct populations for places where church
registers are incomplete. He then applies the method to data for
Valencia, Spain, from 1610 to 1899.
Correspondence: M.
Ardit, Universitat de Valencia, Nave 2, 46003 Valencia, Spain.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:20568 Bernat i
Marti, Joan S. Report on a project to compile parish
registers in Spain and Portugal. [Informe sobre el proyecto de
recopilacion de los registros parroquiales en Espana y Portugal.]
Boletin de la Asociacion de Demografia Historica, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1991.
109-13 pp. Madrid, Spain. In Spa.
The author presents a progress
report on a project, undertaken by the Association of Historical
Demography in Madrid, to coordinate historical demographic research for
Spain and Portugal. In addition to cataloging all parish registers,
completed research projects are being reviewed to ascertain whether all
aspects of the demographic histories of these countries are being
adequately studied. The project was conceived at a workshop entitled
Time Series of Vital Statistics and Historical Demography, held on
March 1-2, 1991, in Valencia, Spain.
For the report on the workshop,
see 57:40552.
Correspondence: J. S. Bernat i Marti, Colon
31, Borriol (Castellon), Spain. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
58:20569 Livi Bacci,
Massimo; Reher, David S. Other routes toward the past:
from life series to demographic dynamics in historical
populations. [Otras vias hacia el pasado: de series vitales a
dinamicas demograficas en poblaciones historicas.] Boletin de la
Asociacion de Demografia Historica, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1991. 87-108 pp.
Madrid, Spain. In Spa.
The authors apply various indirect
estimation methods to data for New Castile, Spain, from the early 1500s
to 1887. They project the size of the population and its levels of
fertility, mortality, and nuptiality, then discuss the applicability of
the various methods in light of the results
obtained.
Correspondence: M. Livi Bacci, Universita degli
Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento Statistico, Via Curtatone 1, 50123
Florence, Italy. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:20570 Palsky,
Gilles. Statistical mapping of the population in the
nineteenth century. [La cartographie statistique de la population
au XIXe siecle.] Espace, Populations, Societes, No. 3, 1991. 451-8 pp.
Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng.
The author
reviews the history of the mapping of demographic data in Europe,
beginning with the first map to appear, in 1828 in Prussia. The four
main types of maps used (choropleth, dot, isopleth, and cartogram) are
described, and their contributions to the timely dissemination of
population statistics are assessed.
Correspondence: G.
Palsky, Universite de Paris XII (Paris-Val-de-Marne), Faculte des
Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Avenue du General de Gaulle, 94010
Creteil Cedex, France. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
58:20571 Sevin,
Andre; Boetsch, Gilles. Genealogical files and the
analysis of the genetic structure of non-isolated populations. An
application to an agricultural population of the Limousin region.
[Fichiers genealogiques et analyse de la structure genetique de
populations non isolees. Application a une population agricole du
Limousin.] Cahiers Quebecois de Demographie, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring
1991. 37-50 pp. Montreal, Canada. In Fre. with sum. in Eng; Spa.
"This article shows the methodological problems appearing in the
production of genealogical files for non-endogamous or 'open'
populations. [The authors conclude that] the study area must be
extended to a geographic space larger than the one where the
[designated] population resides." The authors reconstitute family
structures using data from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth
centuries for an agricultural community in Limousin,
France.
Correspondence: A. Sevin, Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Purpan,
Toulouse, France. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
58:20572 Ubelaker,
Douglas H. Patterns of demographic change in the
Americas. Human Biology, Vol. 64, No. 3, Jun 1992. 361-79 pp.
Detroit, Michigan. In Eng.
The author focuses on scholarly debate
about demographic change and its effect on the mortality of native
populations in the Americas before and after the year 1492. "Recent
research on human skeletal samples and related archeological materials
suggests that morbidity and mortality were increasing throughout much
of the Western Hemisphere before 1492 in response to increased
population density, increased sedentism, and changing subsistence. The
evidence suggests that after 1492 population reduction was caused not
by continental pandemics but by localized or regional epidemics
augmented by social and economic disruption. The twentieth century has
witnessed remarkable Native American population recovery, fueled both
by improvements in health care and changing definitions of 'being
Indian.'"
Correspondence: D. H. Ubelaker, Smithsonian
Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of
Anthropology, Washington, D.C. 20560. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
