Studies dealing with the demographic events of any given period from the early historical up to World War I.
Comprehensive surveys, notes of sources, and items on the state of research. Particularly concerned with the period before modern vital registration was introduced and censuses were taken. Historical items that primarily pertain to one specific demographic variable are classified first under the specific heading and then cross-referenced to this heading.
63:30530 Bardet, Jean-Pierre; Dupâquier,
Jacques. A history of the populations of Europe.
[Histoire des populations de l'Europe.] ISBN 2-213-02825-7. 1997. 660
pp. Fayard: Paris, France. In Fre.
The first of three planned
volumes on the history of the populations of Europe, this volume covers
the period from the first human entry into the region up to the
eighteenth century. It is a collective work, including the
contributions of 35 individuals from 15 countries. There are sections
on the prehistoric population; the Greek and Roman empires; the high
Middle Ages; demographic trends from the tenth to the fourteenth
century; the crises of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; the
history of demography and historical sources of demographic
information; demographic fluctuations from the fifteenth to the
eighteenth century; migration; mortality; fertility; nuptiality and the
family; the British isles; Scandinavia; the Low Countries; France; the
Iberian peninsula; Italy; Germany; Central Europe and the Danube; and
Russia, Poland, and the Baltic countries.
Correspondence:
Librairie Arthème Fayard, 75 rue des Saints-Pères,
75006 Paris, France. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
63:30531 Gunnlaugsson, Gísli Á.;
Gardarsdóttir, Ólöf. Transition into
widowhood: a life-course perspective on the household position of
Icelandic widows at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Continuity and Change, Vol. 11, No. 3, Dec 1996. 435-58 pp. Cambridge,
England. In Eng. with sum. in Fre; Ger.
"For most women in
late-nineteenth-century Iceland, the loss of their husbands resulted in
the weakening of the economic support system....Rather than focusing on
the reasons underlying the deteriorating household position of a high
proportion of elderly widows, we have chosen to consider the economic
strategies applied by those who succeeded in remaining in an
independent household position. Our results demonstrate that there were
considerable differences in the means of livelihood and household
structures between urban and rural areas. A considerably higher
percentage of widows headed households in the towns than was the case
in rural Iceland."
Correspondence: Ó.
Gardarsdóttir, University of Iceland, Department of History,
Sadurgata, 107 Reykjavík, Iceland. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
63:30532 Levine, Frances; LaBauve,
Anna. Examining the complexity of historic population
decline: a case study of Pecos Pueblo, New Mexico. Ethnohistory,
Vol. 44, No. 1, Winter 1997. 75-112 pp. Durham, North Carolina. In Eng.
"Pecos Pueblo was the principal community on the Upper Pecos
River in New Mexico from about A.D. 1450 until the 1790s, when Hispanic
settlers entered the valley. The pueblo was a dominant force in
Plains-Pueblo relationships and Pueblo-Hispanic interactions throughout
the Spanish colonial period. In 1838, a much reduced Pueblo community
emigrated west of the Rio Grande to join Jémez Pueblo. Primary
sacramental and census records from Pecos Pueblo and the surrounding
Hispanic communities are analyzed for the period 1694-1840. Baptismal,
burial, and marriage records reflect the impact of disease, exogamy,
warfare, and resource competition on the pueblo
population."
Location: Princeton University Library
(PR).
63:30533 Luna, Francisco V. The
demographic characteristics of slaves in São Paulo,
1777-1829. [Características demográficas dos
escravos de São Paulo (1777-1829).] Estudos Econômicos,
Vol. 22, No. 3, Sep-Dec 1992. 443-83 pp. São Paulo, Brazil. In
Por. with sum. in Eng.
"The introduction and development of
sugar and coffee production in São Paulo [Brazil] led to deep
changes in its populational structure. The large number of slaves who
entered the province, mainly adult men, destroyed the population's
relative balance, both in terms of sex and age structures. The study,
based on manuscripts known as `Maços de População'
which belong to the Arquivo do Estado de São Paulo, covers
twenty-five different communities in São Paulo, in the years
1777, 1804 and 1829. The demographic characteristics of the slaves and
their relation with economic variables were analysed....Special
attention was given to the slaves' marriage and their reproductive
capacity."
Correspondence: J. F. Motta, Núcleo
de Estudos em História Demográfica, 210 Rua Adele, Bloco
8, Apartado 44, 04757-050 São Paulo, Brazil. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:30534 Peng, Xizhe; Hou, Yangfang.
Demographic and social change in Jiangsu and Zhejiang between 1370
and 1900: a study of the genealogy of the Fan family. Chinese
Journal of Population Science, Vol. 8, No. 4, 1996. 361-72 pp. New
York, New York. In Eng.
The authors examine demographic and social
change in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, China, between 1370 and 1900, using a
genealogy of the Fan family in Chengjiang. They analyze the male birth
rate, mortality rate, and growth rate. They also investigate the
relationships among birth rate, mortality rate, age at death, and the
price of rice.
Correspondence: X. Peng, Fudan University,
Institute of Demographics, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai, China.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:30535 Società Italiana di Demografia
Storica [SIDES] (Bologna, Italy). Proceedings of the
seminar on "The Population of Religious in Italy in the
Seventeenth Century (and thereabouts)" [Atti del seminario su
"La popolazione dei religiosi in Italia nel seicento (e
dintorni)"] Bollettino di Demografia Storica, No. 22, 1995. 148
pp. Bologna, Italy. In Ita.
These are the proceedings of a seminar
held in Assisi, December 7-8, 1995, on the demography of religious
communities in Italy in the seventeenth century.
Correspondence:
Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice, Via Marsala 24, 40126
Bologna, Italy. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
Applications of demographic methodology to the records of the past. Relevant items are coded here and, if of more general interest than to historical demography alone, are cross-referenced to N. Methods of Research and Analysis Including Models.
63:30536 Jones, E. D. Medieval
merchets as demographic data: some evidence from the Spalding Priory
estates, Lincolnshire. Continuity and Change, Vol. 11, No. 3, Dec
1996. 459-70 pp. Cambridge, England. In Eng. with sum. in Fre; Ger.
"The merchet, or marriage payment, was normally owed by a
female villein, her husband, or one of her relatives, as an obligation
of her status. It has attracted considerable attention from historians
from different angles, and it is the purpose of this note to explore
further one of these angles: the demographic aspect...[The author uses
the example of] Spalding Priory in Lincolnshire, the evidence for which
forms the basis of this note, because it is probably an unrivalled
source for the study of merchet in all its
manifestations."
Correspondence: E. D. Jones,
University of Western Australia, Department of History, Nedlands, WA
6009, Australia. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
