61:20577 Andorka,
Rudolf. The historical demography of a proper Hungarian
village: Atany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Journal of Family History, Vol. 19, No. 4, 1994. 311-31 pp. Greenwich,
Connecticut/London, England. In Eng.
"Atany is the first village in
the Great Plain region in Hungary to be analyzed by means [of] family
reconstitution....Mortality did not improve until the end of the
nineteenth century. The age at first marriage for women was slightly
above twenty years, and very few women remained single until the end of
their reproductive ages. Fertility remained high until the end of the
nineteenth century. The development of fertility was very different
from the southern Transdanubian villages characterized by early birth
control. Nearly half the households had complicated structure, falling
between the middle European, Mediterranean, and Eastern household
types. These characteristics might be explained by the relative
abundance of land in the Great Plain
region."
Correspondence: R. Andorka, Budapest University of
Economic Sciences, Fovam ter 8, 1093 Budapest IX, Hungary.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:20578 Gerhan,
David R. Bibliography of American demographic history:
the literature from 1984 to 1994. Bibliographies and Indexes in
American History, No. 30, ISBN 0-313-26677-8. LC 94-42117. 1995. xx,
339 pp. Greenwood Press: Westport, Connecticut/London, England. In Eng.
This is an update of a retrospective bibliography of studies on
American demographic history from colonial times to 1983, covering the
period 1984 to 1994. The bibliographic references, which are
unannotated, are organized by subject. Indexes are provided by author,
place, ethnicity and national origin, and selected topic.
For a
related study, published in 1989, see 55:10570.
Correspondence: Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, P.O.
Box 5007, Westport, CT 06881-5007. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
61:20579 Harrell,
Stevan. Chinese historical microdemography. Studies
on China, No. 20, ISBN 0-520-08306-7. LC 94-6116. 1995. xiii, 236 pp.
University of California Press: Berkeley, California/London, England.
In Eng.
The eight papers included in this volume were originally
presented at a conference held in Asilomar, California, in January
1987. The papers share a common approach in that they involve the
detailed examination of small populations, using data from genealogies
and other historic sources of microdata, in order to throw further
light on general problems of China's population history, particularly
at the regional level. Topics covered include marriage, fertility,
lineages, family structure, and mortality.
Correspondence:
University of California Press, 2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94720.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:20580 Lovell, W.
George; Lutz, Christopher H. Demography and empire. A
guide to the population history of Spanish Central America,
1500-1821. Dellplain Latin American Studies, No. 33, ISBN
0-8133-8865-1. LC 94-24614. 1995. xv, 190 pp. Westview Press: Boulder,
Colorado/Oxford, England. In Eng.
This is an annotated bibliography
of studies on the population of Central America during the period of
Spanish rule, from 1500 to 1821. The focus is on studies that deal with
population size, distribution, composition, and change over time.
Following an introductory essay and analysis of the entries, the
bibliographic references are presented alphabetically by author. A
general index is provided.
Correspondence: Westview Press,
5500 Central Avenue, Boulder, CO 80301-2877. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:20581 Weir, David
R. Family income, mortality, and fertility on the eve of
the demographic transition: a case study of Rosny-sous-Bois.
Journal of Economic History, Vol. 55, No. 1, Mar 1995. 1-26 pp. New
York, New York/Cambridge, England. In Eng.
"This article combines
uniquely detailed household-level tax assessments with reconstituted
family histories for an eighteenth-century agricultural village near
Paris [France]. The tax records reveal substantial diversity in income
among taxpayers despite the exemptions given privileged landowners.
High-income households had significantly lower levels of infant and
adult mortality, earlier age at marriage of the wife, and slightly
lower rates of emigration by their surviving children. Marital
fertility was high at all income levels. These classic Malthusian
patterns were found at the household level more than a generation after
the last great subsistence crises and resulted in a much higher local
rate of replacement for the better-off
families."
Correspondence: D. R. Weir, University of
Chicago, National Opinion Research Center, Population Research Center,
1155 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637-2799. Location:
Princeton University Library (PF).
61:20582 Hammel, E.
A.; Wachter, Kenneth W. A microsimulation test of
historical household structure: evaluating the Slavonian Census of
1698. Program in Population Research Working Paper, No. 38, Jan
1995. 30, [26] pp. University of California, Institute of International
Studies, Program in Population Research: Berkeley, California. In Eng.
"Microsimulation, other demographic tools, and evidence of history
and ethnography are used to evaluate an important 17th century
household census. Linguistic, ethnographic, and internal evidence allow
adjustment of anomalies in census categories. Microsimulation based on
historically and ethnographically plausible rates and household
formation scenarios produces simulated households in accord with those
of the adjusted census. Results permit estimation of the true
population of the region, of the kinship and age composition of
households under frontier conditions, and the probable future
composition of households as the frontier stabilized and land shortage
began to exert pressure for greater density and household complexity."
Slavonia is located in modern Croatia.
Correspondence:
University of California, Institute of International Studies, Program
in Population Research, 2232 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94720.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:20583 Ruggles,
Steven; Menard, Russell R. The Minnesota historical census
projects. Historical Methods, Vol. 28, No. 1, Winter 1995. 78 pp.
Heldref Publications: Washington, D.C. In Eng.
This special issue
describes the historical census projects at the University of
Minnesota. These projects involve the development of historical public
use samples of nineteenth-century U.S. censuses, including the
development of the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. This
"database will include information on over 50 million individuals
spread over 140 years of extraordinary social and economic change. We
expect that the unprecedented potential to locate individual behavior
in time and spatial context will generate important new research on
topics such as fertility, urbanization, immigration, household
composition, and occupational structure."
Correspondence:
Heldref Publications, Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, 1319
Eighteenth Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20036-1802. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
