62:10548 Amorim,
Maria N. Historical demography in Portugal.
[Demografia historica em Portugal.] Boletin de la Asociacion de
Demografia Historica, Vol. 13, No. 2, 1995. 171 pp. Asociacion de
Demografia Historica [ADEH]: Bilbao, Spain. In Por. with sum. in Eng;
Fre; Spa.
This special issue contains five articles on aspects of
the historical demography of Portugal. The topics covered include the
demographic history of a rural parish, mortality crises in Lisbon over
time, emigration from northeastern Portugal, the history of a rich
slave-holding family in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the reconstitution of
parish records.
Correspondence: Asociacion de Demografia
Historica, Universitat d'Alacant, Campus Universitari de Sant Joan, Ap.
de Correus 374, 03080 Alicante, Spain. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
62:10549 Beloch,
Karl J. The history of the population of Italy.
[Storia della popolazione d'Italia.] Bibliotheca, No. 28, ISBN
88-7166-191-5. 1994. xxxii, 695 pp. Casa Editrice le Lettere: Florence,
Italy. In Ita.
This is the first translation into Italian of the
classic work of Karl Beloch on the history of the population of Italy.
It was originally published in German after the author's death in 1929.
It consists primarily of a review of the available sources and of the
quality of the demographic data they contain. The first part examines
the available sources for Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples. The second
part concerns the Papal States, Tuscany, and the duchies of the Po
valley. The third part examines the Venetian Republic, the Duchy of
Milan, Piedmont, Genoa, Corsica, and Sardinia. The study spans from the
thirteenth to the nineteenth century.
This is a translation from the
German work published in three volumes in 1937, 1939, and 1961.
Correspondence: Casa Editrice le Lettere, Costa S. Giorgio
28, 50125 Florence, Italy. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
62:10550 Breschi,
Marco; Pozzi, Lucia; Rettaroli, Rosella. Geographic
similarities and differences in rates of population growth in Italy,
1730-1911. [Analogie e differenze territoriali nella crescita
della popolazione italiana, 1730-1911.] Bollettino di Demografia
Storica, No. 20, 1994. 41-94 pp. Florence, Italy. In Ita.
The
authors attempt to summarize what is known about population trends in
the various states into which Italy was divided in the period before
unification in the late nineteenth century, and in the period
immediately following unification. Data are primarily from the official
records of the various states and local authorities concerned. The
authors conclude with a review of what is known about the demography of
the period, and what remains to be
revealed.
Correspondence: M. Breschi, Via B. Sestini 26,
51100 Pistoia, Italy. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
62:10551 Bussini,
Odoardo; Montanari, Giorgio E. An attempt at the
reconstruction of an urban population of the eighteenth century using a
sample series of data on natural increase. [Un tentativo di
ricostruzione di una popolazione urbana nel'700 attraverso le serie
campionarie del movimento naturale.] Bollettino di Demografia Storica,
No. 20, 1994. 21-39 pp. Florence, Italy. In Ita.
Data from 35
parishes in the Italian city of Perugia are used to reconstruct
population developments in the city over the period from 1730 to
1789.
Correspondence: O. Bussini, Universita degli Studi di
Perugia, Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, Via A. Pascoli, C.P.
65/Succ. 1, 06100 Perugia, Italy. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
62:10552 Calvo,
Thomas; Borah, Woodrow; Cook, Sherburne F.; Miranda, Jose; Vollmer,
Gunter; Newson, Linda A.; Malvido, Elsa; Carmagnani, Marcello; Rabell,
Cecilia; Brading, David A.; Davies, Keith A. History and
population in Mexico (sixteenth to nineteenth century). [Historia
y poblacion en Mexico (Siglos XVI-XIX).] Lecturas de Historia Mexicana,
No. 9, ISBN 968-12-0622-3. 1994. xxv, 304 pp. El Colegio de Mexico,
Centro de Estudios Historicos: Mexico City, Mexico. In Spa.
This is
a selection of 10 articles originally published in the journal Historia
Mexicana on various aspects of the historical demography of Mexico. The
topics covered include the depopulation that occurred in the sixteenth
century; the indigenous population in the seventeenth century; the
indigenous population of the Puebla region; regional variation in the
demography of Spanish colonial America; population trends in Cholula;
the social structure of the mining population in northern Mexico;
marriage and race in a rural parish; population and economy in Nueva
Galicia; ethnic groups, class, and occupations in Guanajuato; and
urbanization in the nineteenth century.
Correspondence: El
Colegio de Mexico, Centro de Estudios Historicos, Camino al Ajusco 20,
Pedregal de Santa Teresa, 10740 Mexico City, DF, Mexico.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:10553 Gjerde,
Jon; McCants, Anne. Fertility, marriage, and culture:
demographic processes among Norwegian immigrants to the rural Middle
West. Journal of Economic History, Vol. 55, No. 4, Dec 1995.
860-88 pp. New York, New York/Cambridge, England. In Eng.
"The
image of the `backward' immigrant has enjoyed a prominent place in
American history, in large part because of the perceived `non-American'
fertility behavior of many immigrant groups. The European perspective
on these migrants, however, has been to see them as innovators,
breaking free from the demographic constraints of the Old World.
Drawing upon a large sample of reconstituted Norwegian immigrant
families, this article examines the rising and then declining fertility
of this group over the second half of the nineteenth century. It
concludes that their fertility experience was influenced both by
cultural tenacity and economic
opportunity."
Correspondence: J. Gjerde, University of
California, Department of History, Berkeley, CA 94720.
Location: Princeton University Library (PF).
62:10554 Horvath,
Robert A. The history of demographic research in Hungary
from the beginning up to the advent of the period of official
statistics. [L'histoire de la pensee demographique hongroise de
ses debuts jusqu'a l'avenement de la periode de la statistique
officielle.] ISBN 963-215-061-9. 1995. 281, [9] pp. Kozponti
Statisztikai Hivatal: Budapest, Hungary. In Fre.
This work, which
was originally written in 1984, describes the development of demography
in Hungary from the eighteenth century to the 1980s. The context is the
development of Hungarian contributions to the study of economics and
statistics in general over the course of
time.
Correspondence: Kozponti Statisztikai Hivatal,
Bibliotheque et Service de Documentation, Keleti Karoly Utca 5-7, 1525
Budapest II, Hungary. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
62:10555 Kovacsics,
Jozsef. Answers and open questions of historical
demography concerning the population size of the Arpadian age. [A
torteneti demografia valaszai es nyitott kerdesei az Arpad-kor
nepessegszamara vonatkozoan.] Demografia, Vol. 38, No. 2-3, 1995.
142-70 pp. Budapest, Hungary. In Hun. with sum. in Eng.
Some
questions concerning the demography of Hungary at the time of the
Hungarian conquest from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries are
explored. The focus is on the ethnicity of the various populations
living in the region and how these populations were affected by the
conquest.
Correspondence: J. Kovacsics, Harszt utca 22,
1118 Budapest, Hungary. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
62:10556 Tittarelli,
Luigi. Taking the veil, marriage, and fertility in Perugia
in the seventeenth century. [Monacazioni, matrimoni e fecondita a
Perugia nel Seicento.] Bollettino di Demografia Storica, No. 20, 1994.
157-71 pp. Florence, Italy. In Ita.
The author examines the impact
that women taking religious vows had on nuptiality and fertility in the
Italian city of Perugia in the seventeenth century. Data are from
various archives of the Catholic church.
Correspondence: L.
Tittarelli, Universita degli Studi di Perugia, Istituto di Statistica,
Via A. Pascoli, C.P. 65 Succ. 1, 06100 Perugia, Italy.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:10557 Martelli,
Cristina; Salvini, Silvana; Santini, Antonio. Aggregate
methods for calculating life tables from incomplete data: the example
of post-unification Tuscany. [Metodi aggregati per il calcolo
delle tavole di mortalita a partire da dati carenti: l'esempio della
Toscana post-unitaria.] Bollettino di Demografia Storica, No. 20, 1994.
95-109 pp. Florence, Italy. In Ita.
Various alternative methods are
used to estimate trends in mortality in Tuscany, Italy, in the period
from 1871 to 1881. The focus is on the methodological issues
raised.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:10558 Munoz
Pradas, Francisco. Looking for a new past: strategies and
problems of methodologies in historical demography. [Vias hacia un
nuevo pasado: estrategias y problemas en las metodologias de la
demografia historica.] Notas de Poblacion, Vol. 23, No. 61, Jun 1995.
177-210 pp. Santiago, Chile. In Spa. with sum. in Eng.
"This
article presents a state of the art [discussion] on the methodologies
of historical demography....This analysis is oriented to evaluate
goals, possibilities and limitations in the methods of historical
demography. These methods are introduced in terms of answers to two
basic questions in this field: how demographers reconstruct population
dynamics of the past and how they explain behaviour of these
demographic systems."
Correspondence: F. Munoz Pradas,
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Departamento de Geografia, 08193
Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
