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.
63:40549 Beccarini, Antonella.
The nominative study of a cohort of marriages in Rieti in the first
half of the nineteenth century. [Lo studio nominativo di una
coorte di matrimoni di Rieti nella prima metà dell'ottocento.]
Bollettino di Demografia Storica, No. 23, 1995. 9-57 pp. Bologna,
Italy. In Ita.
The method of family reconstitution is used here to
analyze demographic trends in the Italian city of Rieti at the
beginning of the nineteenth century using data from parish
records.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:40550 Ferro, João P.
The Portuguese population at the end of the ancien régime
(1750-1815). [A população portuguesa no final do
antigo regime (1750-1815).] ISBN 972-23-1973-6. LC 96-133486. 1995. 170
pp. Editorial Presença: Lisbon, Portugal. In Por.
This is a
demographic analysis of the population of Portugal in the last half of
the nineteenth century. Topics covered include population growth,
density, and sex and age distribution; urban and rural populations;
population dynamics, including nuptiality, birthrates, fertility,
emigration, mortality, causes of death, and infant mortality; minority
and ethnic groups; and a previously unpublished population survey from
1765. A bibliography of data sources and relevant works is also
provided.
Correspondence: Editorial Presença, Rua
Augusto Gil 35-A, 1000 Lisbon, Portugal. Location: U.S.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
63:40551 Peréz Brignoli,
Héctor. Demographic regimes in Latin America from
the 18th to the 20th centuries. A preliminary report. In:
International Population Conference/Congrès International de la
Population: Beijing, 1997, Volume 1. 1997. 149-63 pp. International
Union for the Scientific Study of Population [IUSSP]: Liège,
Belgium. In Eng.
This is a review of what is known about
demographic regimes in Latin America from the eighteenth to the
twentieth century. The author defines such regimes as the mechanisms of
reproduction and self-regulation of human populations. The need for the
analysis of long time-series data in order to understand the nature and
dynamics of these regimes is stressed.
Correspondence: H.
Peréz Brignoli, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro, Costa
Rica. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:40552 Società Italiana di Demografia
Storica [SIDES] (Bologna, Italy). Inequalities: social
stratification and mobility in the populations of Italy (from the
fourteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century).
[Disuguaglianze: stratificazione e mobilità sociale nelle
popolazioni italiane (dal sec. XIV agli inizi del secolo XX).] ISBN
88-8091-488-X. 1997. xii, 882 pp. Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria
Editrice [CLUEB]: Bologna, Italy. In Ita.
This two-volume
collective work is a product of a conference on historical demography
held in Savona, Italy, in November 1992, and consists of the
contributions of the Italian demographers attending the conference. The
focus of the 48 papers, which are organized into 6 sessions, is on
inequality and social mobility. The sessions are entitled Social and
professional stratification and mobility within and between generations
in rural and urban populations; Migration and social mobility;
Stratification and demographic differentials in the processes of social
mobility; State and church in the creation of forms of social and
professional stratification; Family strategies and legal restrictions
in the transmission of property and social status; and Demographic
crises and changes in social and professional stratification. The
geographical focus is on Italy.
Correspondence: Cooperativa
Libraria Universitaria Editrice, Via Marsala 24, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:40553 Whitmore, Thomas M.
Population geography of calamity: the sixteenth and seventeenth
century Yucatán. International Journal of Population
Geography, Vol. 2, No. 4, Dec 1996. 291-311 pp. Chichester, England. In
Eng.
"This historical demography for Yucatán [Mexico]
at the time of Spanish contact presents a number of problems. There
were multiple Maya-Spaniard contacts before the Spaniards established a
continuous presence after the protracted conquest of the
Yucatán. The area of Yucatán that was controlled by the
Spanish at any one time is not precisely known, and Yucatán
offered `refuge' areas where the indigenous population could avoid
Spanish control and counts. These issues are addressed here by
considering different regions of the Yucatán and using a
numerical computer simulation to generate new estimates of population
that result from migration, warfare, agricultural calamity, and
epidemics."
Correspondence: T. M. Whitmore, University
of North Carolina, Department of Geography, CB3220, Chapel Hill, NC
27599-3220. 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.
63:40554 Bocquet-Appel, J. P.; Masset,
C. Paleodemography: expectancy and false hope.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Vol. 99, No. 4, Apr 1996.
571-83 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
"From parent
populations (N=50,000) stochastically generated...reference samples and
target demographic samples are randomly drawn. Two iterative
techniques, proportional fitting procedure and Bayesian, are used to
estimate from the reference samples the age distribution of the
targets....These techniques allow the estimation of the average of an
age distribution, even if its shape is unknown. Under the hypothesis
that the target sample is drawn from a stationary population, this
average represents the life expectancy at 20 years (plus 20 years).
Using this mean age at death for the adults and the juvenility index at
death...a new set of paleodemographic estimators were derived from 40
archaic life tables. For a hypothesized stable population, they give
the life expectancy at birth and at 20 years, and the probability of
death at 1 and 5 years."
Correspondence: J. P.
Bocquet-Appel, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Biologique, Musée de l'Homme, 17
place du Trocadéro, 75116 Paris, France. E-mail:
bocquet@cimrs1.mnhn.fr. Location: New York Public Library, New
York, NY.
