59:10562 Campbell,
Gwyn. The state and pre-colonial demographic history: the
case of nineteenth-century Madagascar. Journal of African History,
Vol. 32, No. 3, 1991. 415-45 pp. Cambridge, England. In Eng.
"This
paper analyses the demography of nineteenth-century Madagascar in the
light of the debate generated by the demographic transition
theory....[It] argues that in the case of nineteenth-century Madagascar
the human factor, in the form of the Merina state, was the predominant
demographic influence. However, the impact of the state was felt
through natural forces, and it varied over time....[The author]
questions the underlying assumptions governing the debate about
historical demography in Africa and suggests that the demographic
impact of political forces be re-evaluated in terms of their changing
interaction with 'natural' demographic
influences."
Correspondence: G. Campbell, University of the
Witwatersrand, PO Wits, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa.
Location: Princeton University Library (FST).
59:10563 Culbert, T.
Patrick; Rice, Don S. Precolumbian population history in
the Maya lowlands. ISBN 0-8263-1219-5. LC 90-13016. 1990. xx, 395
pp. University of New Mexico Press: Albuquerque, New Mexico. In Eng.
This is a collection of chapters by various authors on aspects of
the demography of the Maya in Central America. It is the product of a
session organized at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology in Denver, Colorado, in 1985. The focus is on
quantitative data and the methods that can be applied to their
analysis. Most of the contributions attempt to estimate the size of
the Mayan lowland population before the Spanish
conquest.
Correspondence: University of New Mexico Press,
1720 Lomas Boulevard NE, Albuquerque, NM 87131-1591.
Location: Princeton University Library (FST).
59:10564 Goldstone,
Jack A. Revolution and rebellion in the early modern
world. ISBN 0-520-06758-4. LC 89-49052. 1991. xxix, 608 pp.
University of California Press: Berkeley, California/Oxford, England.
In Eng.
The author examines the causes of political revolutions in
the early modern world. The focus is on the wave of rebellions that
occurred between 1600 and 1660, typified by the English Revolution of
the 1640s, and on a second wave of crises that occurred between 1789
and 1848, including the French Revolution of 1789. Particular
attention is given to how population trends affected early modern
societies. The author suggests that "most political scientists and
historians have underestimated the role of demography in political
crises by thinking only about aggregate population changes. They have
thereby overlooked the disproportionate impact that even moderate
overall population change has on particular groups--urban workers,
landless peasants, the young, and noninheriting offspring of elites--as
well as the massive indirect effects of population change on prices,
government revenues, and income
distribution."
Correspondence: University of California
Press, 2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94720. Location:
Princeton University Library (FST).
59:10565 Kislyi, A.
E. Age distribution and the revolution of a productive
economy. [Vozrastnaya struktura naseleniya i revolyutsiya
proizvodyashchego khozyaistva.] Demograficheskie Issledovaniya, Vol.
15, 1991. 150-61 pp. Kiev, USSR. In Rus. with sum. in Eng.
"The
author [outlines the] demographic development caused by neolithic
revolution which is compared with...demographic development [in modern
times]. Paleoanthropological materials beginning from the Mesolithic
epoch (Middle Stone Age) are...used."
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
59:10566 Payling, S.
J. Social mobility, demographic change, and landed society
in late medieval England. Economic History Review, Vol. 45, No. 1,
Feb 1992. 51-73 pp. Oxford, England. In Eng.
"This paper aims to
document the impact of the plague-induced demographic crisis of the
second half of the fourteenth and first half of the fifteenth centuries
on the succession patterns of the English landed aristocracy, and to
show that, while these changed succession patterns both increased the
wealth of the established families that survived the plague and
encouraged upward mobility into the landed class, they were
particularly important in promoting the
latter."
Correspondence: S. J. Payling, University of
Oxford, Balliol College, Oxford OX1 3BJ, England. Location:
Princeton University Library (PR).
59:10567 Ponte
Chamorro, Federico J. Demography and society in early
nineteenth-century Madrid (1787-1857). [Demografia y sociedad en
el Madrid decimononico (1787-1857).] ISBN 84-7506-331-4. [1991]. 223,
[6] pp. Turner Libros: Madrid, Spain; Ayuntamiento de Madrid: Madrid,
Spain. In Spa.
The author presents a socio-demographic study of the
population of Madrid, Spain, during the period 1787-1857, using data
from civil and parish registers. Consideration is given to such
quality of life factors as personal and public hygiene, housing, food
supply, and disease. A section on poverty and begging and some
possible governmental solutions to these problems is
included.
Correspondence: Turner Libros, Genova 3, 28004
Madrid, Spain. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
59:10568 Vann,
Richard T.; Eversley, David. Friends in life and death:
the British and Irish Quakers in the demographic transition,
1650-1900. Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in
Past Time, No. 17, ISBN 0-521-39201-2. LC 90-21802. 1992. xix, 281 pp.
Cambridge University Press: New York, New York/Cambridge, England. In
Eng.
The technique of family reconstitution is used to analyze
social, demographic, and familial changes among some 8,000 Quaker
families in Great Britain and Ireland over the period 1650-1900. The
authors "show how Quaker religious values delayed marriage, and the
evidence suggests that in the seventeenth century English Quakers
practiced family limitation, although their Irish counterparts, by
contrast, became one of the most fertile of all demographic groupings.
Severe urban mortality was the fate of many urban Quakers prior to
1750, but sanitary improvements seem to have reduced this, and from
1825 onwards the Quakers were in the vanguard of the move toward the
small, modern family."
Correspondence: Cambridge University
Press, Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RP, England.
Location: Princeton University Library (FST).
59:10569 Blum,
Alain; Bonneuil, Noel; Blanchet, Didier. Models of
historical demography. [Modeles de la demographie historique.]
Congres et Colloques, No. 11, ISBN 2-7332-4011-0. 1992. ix, 370 pp.
Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques [INED]: Paris, France;
Presses Universitaires de France: Paris, France. In Fre.
This is a
selection of the papers presented at a seminar held in June 1989 in
Paris, France, which was organized in honor of the late Louis Henry and
focused on developments in the methodologies available for the study of
historical demography. The 17 papers are divided into four sections,
which are concerned with family reconstitution, genealogical
approaches, and aggregate methods; variability in demographic series
and the stability of reconstitutions; recent developments in Malthusian
models; and demographic behavior during the demographic transition.
The primary geographical focus is on
Europe.
Correspondence: Institut National d'Etudes
Demographiques, 27 rue du Commandeur, 75675 Paris Cedex 14, France.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
59:10570 Dyer,
Alan. The Bishops' Census of 1563: its significance and
accuracy. Local Population Studies, No. 49, Autumn 1992. 19-37 pp.
Matlock, England. In Eng.
The author evaluates the accuracy and
reliability of the Bishops' Census, conducted in 1563 in England and
Wales. He explains the techniques required to estimate total
population figures from that census.
Correspondence: A.
Dyer, University of Wales, History Department, Bangor, Wales.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
59:10571 Favero,
Giovanni; Moro, Maria; Spinelli, Pierpaolo; Trivellato, Francesca;
Vianello, Francesco. The souls of demography. Sources for
estimating population trends in Venetia in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. [Le anime dei demografi. Fonti per la
rilevazione dello stato della popolazione di Venezia nei secoli XVI e
XVII.] Bollettino di Demografia Storica, No. 15, 1991. 23-110 pp.
Florence, Italy. In Ita.
The authors critically review the
available sources of demographic data for the Italian Venetian Republic
in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The primary focus is on
ecclesiastical records.
Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
59:10572 Lee,
Ronald. Accidental and systematic change in population
history: homeostasis in a stochastic setting. Explorations in
Economic History, Vol. 30, No. 1, Jan 1993. 1-30 pp. Orlando, Florida.
In Eng.
"My goal in this paper is to draw out some general features
of the macrodynamic behavior of homeostatic demographic regimes,
features that arise from fundamental similarities of structure
underlying the diversity of mechanisms. I will develop a simple,
schematic representation and examine its dynamic behavior, considering
in particular its behavior in a stochastic context....I first consider
the qualitative behavior of different hypothetical types of homeostatic
system and briefly review relevant empirical evidence. Next I develop a
model of homeostasis and consider its dynamic behavior in a stochastic
setting. The analysis leads me to view homeostasis as a filter which
attenuates certain kinds of external shocks while passing or amplifying
others. After developing the general analysis, I consider several
applications and extensions: the origin of long swings in demographic
history, problems of estimating the parameters of a homeostatic system,
and technological change induced by population growth...." The
geographical focus is on Europe, with some data for England used to
illustrate.
Correspondence: R. Lee, University of
California, Demography and Economics, Berkeley, CA 94720.
Location: Princeton University Library (PF).
59:10573 Ruggles,
Steven. Migration, marriage, and mortality: correcting
sources of bias in English family reconstitutions. Population
Studies, Vol. 46, No. 3, Nov 1992. 507-22 pp. London, England. In Eng.
"In this paper I illustrate the downward bias in marriage age and
life expectancy in family reconstitution data under pre-industrial
English demographic conditions, and suggest methods for correcting the
errors. In addition, I evaluate the procedures proposed by Alain Blum
for the estimation of adult mortality."
For the article by Blum,
published in 1989, see 55:40516.
Correspondence: S.
Ruggles, University of Minnesota, Department of History, Minneapolis,
MN 55455. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
