61:30574 Beekink,
Erik; van Cruyningen, Piet. A demographic databank for
Dutch municipalities, 1811-1850. [Demografische databank
Nederlandse gemeenten, 1811-1850.] NIDI Rapport, No. 40, ISBN
90-70990-50-4. 1995. 206 pp. Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic
Institute [NIDI]: The Hague, Netherlands. In Dut. with sum. in Eng.
This publication attempts to complete a project initiated by the
late E. W. Hofstee, and to document and describe available demographic
data on Dutch municipalities for the period
1811-1850.
Correspondence: Netherlands Interdisciplinary
Demographic Institute, P.O. Box 11650, 2502 AR The Hague, Netherlands.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:30575 Cordell,
Dennis D.; Gregory, Joel W. African population and
capitalism: historical perspectives. 2nd ed. ISBN 0-299-14270-1.
LC 93-39164. 1994. 304 pp. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison,
Wisconsin/London, England. In Eng.
This is a selection of 17
studies on the demographic effects of colonialism in Africa. The focus
is on how population trends can be studied in the era preceding the
development of modern data-collection methods such as censuses and
vital statistics. The work demonstrates "the need to see population
change in African society not as a product of any single demographic
phenomenon--for example, a rise in fertility, or a decline in
mortality, or an increase in migration--but as an historical process in
which all three demographic parameters interact with each other, and
with the social, economic, and ideological factors that are the stock
and trade of historical analysis."
For the first edition, published
in 1987, see 53:30592.
Correspondence: University of
Wisconsin Press, 114 North Murray Street, Madison, WI 53715.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:30576 Curto, Jose
C. Sources for the pre-1900 population history of
Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Angola, 1773-1845. Annales de
Demographie Historique, 1994. 319-38 pp. Paris, France. In Eng. with
sum. in Fre.
"This article deals with the largest collection of
primary sources yet located documenting the population history of any
area in Sub-Saharan Africa before 1900: 350 censuses produced between
1773 and 1845 in the Portuguese colony of Angola. It examines the
administrative background of these censuses, describes the types of
demographic data contained therein, and evaluates the problems raised
by this corpus of data. Two major conclusions are drawn. First,
although most demographers and historians have assumed that traditional
quantitative sources on the population past of Sub-Saharan Africa are
not available prior to the turn of the nineteenth century, a steadily
growing amount of this type of documentation does in fact exist for
coastal areas under European control. Second, in the specific of
Angola, with the extant demographic data being closer to those found in
more modern censuses, its population history can be effectively
reconstructed with a fair degree of precision and
detail."
Correspondence: J. C. Curto, McGill University,
Centre for Developing Areas Studies, 3715 rue Peel, Montreal, Quebec
H3A 1X1, Canada. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:30577 Garrett,
Eilidh; Reid, Alice. Satanic mills, pleasant lands:
spatial variation in women's work, fertility and infant mortality as
viewed from the 1911 census. Historical Research, Vol. 67, No.
163, Jun 1994. 156-77 pp. Oxford, England. In Eng.
The authors use
data from the 1911 census of England and Wales to examine geographical
differences in women's employment, fertility, and infant mortality.
The data is supplemented by a selection of anonymized individual
returns from the 1891, 1901, 1911, and 1921 censuses for 53 clusters of
enumeration districts, which include approximately the same spatial
areas for each of the four census years. The authors use these data to
further examine geographic differences in the process of demographic
transition.
Correspondence: E. Garrett, Cambridge Group for
the History of Population and Social Structure, 27 Trumpington Street,
Cambridge CB2 1QA, England. Location: New York Public Library,
New York, NY.
61:30578 Gervais,
Raymond. Censuses in French West Africa: origins and
significance. Examples from colonial Upper Volta. [Recensements en
A.O.F.: genese et signification. Des exemples de la Haute-Volta
coloniale.] Annales de Demographie Historique, 1994. 339-54 pp. Paris,
France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng.
The development of demographic
data systems in colonial French West Africa is described, using the
example of Upper Volta (modern Burkina Faso). The author notes the
many factors that prevented the development of an effective system of
demographic accounting in the region, including lack of personnel,
inadequate training, shortage of funds, and a lack of local statistical
institutions.
Correspondence: R. Gervais, McGill
University, Centre for Developing Areas Studies, 3715 rue Peel,
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1X1, Canada. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
61:30579 Janczak,
Julian K. The statistics of the population of the Kingdom
of Poland in the second half of the nineteenth century.
[Statystyka ludnosci Krolestwa Polskiego w drugiej polowie XIX.]
Przeszlosc Demograficzna Polski, No. 19, 1994. 47-116 pp. Warsaw,
Poland. In Pol. with sum. in Eng.
This is a continuation of a
previous study on the available demographic data for the Kingdom of
Poland in the nineteenth century. The author describes the changes in
the organization of statistical data collection over time that occurred
as a result of political events. The quality of the data collected is
also assessed.
For a related article concerning the first half of
the nineteenth century, see 50:30603.
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
61:30580 Maur,
Eduard. Humans and plague in history. [Clovek a mor v
dejinach.] Demografie, Vol. 37, No. 1, 1995. 36-41 pp. Prague, Czech
Republic. In Cze. with sum. in Eng; Rus.
"The author tries to
clarify...different aspects of the relationship between man and plague
in Europe since antiquity up to the extinction of pest epidemics in the
18th century....The article deals with the consequences of the Black
Death from the mid-14th century on the European [economies] and also on
contemporary social conditions. It characterizes reactions of that
time [to] that disaster and, afterwards, pursues the reflex of plague
in art and especially in fine arts since antiquity until the 20th
century."
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:30581 Zamorski,
Krzysztof. Demographic transformation in Central Europe in
the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth
century. [Transformacja demograficzna w Europie Srodkowej w XIX w.
wewnetrzne podobienstwa i roznice.] Przeszlosc Demograficzna Polski,
No. 19, 1994. 27-45 pp. Warsaw, Poland. In Pol. with sum. in Eng.
This is a review of demographic trends in Central Europe from the
mid-nineteenth century to the present day, the focus being on the
timing of the various stages of the demographic transition in different
population groups. The author suggests that the demographic transition
came after and was adapted from the experience of Western European
populations.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:30582 Bernabeu
Mestre, Josep. Sickness and population. An introduction
to the problems and methods of historical epidemiology.
[Enfermedad y poblacion. Introduccion a los problemas y metodos de la
epidemiologia historica.] Scientia Veterum, Serie Monografias, No. 5,
ISBN 84-920303-2-1. 1995. 127 pp. Seminari d'Estudis sobre la Ciencia:
Valencia, Spain. In Spa.
This is a general introduction to the
study of historical epidemiology. Following an overview of concepts and
methods, the author examines the principal sources of data used in
historical epidemiology studies. The main problems in historical
epidemiology are then considered, including causes of sickness and
death, infectious diseases and demographic crises, and the decline of
mortality and the theory of the health transition. The primary
geographical focus is on Europe.
Correspondence: Seminari
d'Estudis sobre la Ciencia, Apartat de Correus 56, 46110 Godella,
Valencia, Spain. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
