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.
64:10536 Alchon, Suzanne A. The
great killers in precolumbian America: a hemispheric perspective.
Latin American Population History Bulletin, No. 27, Fall 1997. 2-11 pp.
Minneapolis, Minnesota. In Eng.
"This paper surveys the recent
literature...on disease and health in the Americas before 1492, drawing
some general conclusions regarding the major causes of mortality in
various regions of the hemisphere. The paper adopts a comparative
perspective, examining patterns of mortality in areas sparsely
populated by societies of hunter-gatherers and those of the more
densely settled regions including Mesoamerica and the Andean Highlands.
It also compares causes of mortality in different geographical zones
ranging from the tropical latitudes of the Caribbean and Central
America to the temperate zones of North and South
America."
Correspondence: S. A. Alchon, University of
Delaware, Department of History, Newark, DE 19716. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:10537 Bardet, Jean-Pierre; Dupâquier,
Jacques. A history of the populations of Europe. II. The
demographic revolution, 1750-1914. [Histoire des populations de
l'Europe. II. La révolution démographique, 1750-1914.]
ISBN 2-213-59880-0. 1998. 647 pp. Fayard: Paris, France. In Fre.
The second of three planned volumes on the history of the
populations of Europe, this work covers the period from 1750 to 1914,
during which the population of Europe increased threefold and a major
transformation in the demographic situation occurred. This volume
contains 18 studies by scholars from all over Europe. The chapter
headings are: Europe transformed; From political arithmetic to
statistics; The decline of mortality; Continuities and changes in
family life; New attitudes to life--fertility control; The progressive
change in population structures; New patterns of distribution--town and
country; Migration and population mobility in Europe during the
Industrial Revolution; France in decline; The British Isles; The Low
Countries; The Nordic countries from 1720 to 1914; The great changes
affecting the German population; Central Europe; The Balkans; Eastern
Europe; Italy; and Iberia.
For the first volume in this series,
published in 1997, see 63:30530.
Correspondence: Libraire
Arthème Fayard, 75 rue des Saints-Pères, 75006 Paris,
France. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:10538 Bergad, Laird W.
Demographic change in a post-export boom society: the population of
Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1776-1821. Journal of Social History, Vol.
29, No. 4, Summer 1996. 895-932 pp. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In Eng.
The author explores "the social and economic history of Minas
Gerais [Brazil] in the late 18th and early 19th centuries....This
article will consider the process of demographic readjustment occurring
in Mineiro society in the aftermath of the 18th-century gold mining
boom....The immigration of free people seeking economic opportunity
virtually ceased between 1786 and 1808 when the annual rate of
population growth in the capitania declined precipitously....The slave
population declined by over 20% between 1786 and 1808....By the early
19th century free peoples of color had replaced slaves as the most
numerous population sector, and their annual rates of demographic
growth would assure population predominance in Minas Gerais from then
on."
Correspondence: L. W. Bergad, Lehman College,
Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies, Bronx, NY 10468.
Location: Princeton University Library (SH).
64:10539 Bonneuil, Noël.
Transformation of the French demographic landscape, 1806-1906.
ISBN 0-19-823340-X. 1997. 218 pp. Clarendon Press: Oxford, England. In
Eng.
The purpose of this study is to reconstruct the demographic
evolution of France's population over the course of the nineteenth
century using a methodology adapted to the available official data on
the female population. The study begins with a review of the available
methods for the reconstruction of historical populations, with
particular emphasis on the approach used by Etienne Van de Walle. The
next chapter examines the quality of the available data and describes
what needs to be done to clean up these data. Next, there are chapters
on the demographic coherence of the official tables of data and on the
methods used to undertake the reconstruction of the population. The
second part of the book presents the results of the analysis. There are
chapters on the dynamics of the population as a whole, the fertility
transition, changes in mortality and migration, and the scope of the
demographic transition. In this last chapter, the possible interactions
among mortality, fertility, and net migration are
examined.
Correspondence: Oxford University Press, Great
Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, England. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
64:10540 Dupâquier, Jacques.
The history of the French population. [Histoire de la
population française.] Collection Quadrige, ISBN 2-13-046820-9.
1995. [2,290] pp. Presses Universitaires de France: Paris, France. In
Fre.
This boxed set of four volumes presents a history of the
French population in a revised edition of its original publication in
1988. Volume 1 covers the period from the origins of the population up
to the Renaissance, Volume 2 the period from the Renaissance up to
1789, Volume 3 the period from 1789 to 1914, and Volume 4 the period
from 1914 to the present.
For the original four volumes, see
54:30545, 55:10569, 55:20559, and 55:20560.
Correspondence:
Presses Universitaires de France, 108 boulevard Saint-Germain,
75006 Paris, France. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
64:10541 Hendrickx, François M.
M. Economic change and demographic continuity: the
demography of Borne and Wierden (the Netherlands) in the period of
proto- and factory industry, 1800-1900. History of the Family,
Vol. 2, No. 4, 1997. 425-50 pp. Greenwich, Connecticut. In Eng.
"The article tests some central hypotheses from theories of
proto-industrialization. The work of Mendels and Medick suggests that
prolonged intensification of cottage industry on a regional level will
have significant consequences for nuptiality and fertility. Two family
reconstitution studies in the Dutch region of Twente, an area with
proto-industrial activities (linen weaving) since the second half of
the seventeenth century, showed that with respect to nuptiality, there
are no indications of the existence of a proto-industrial or industrial
marriage pattern. It is argued that its absence, in spite of intensive
cottage and factory industry in the region, can be attributed to the
existence, on the level of the family, of a dual economy in which
agriculture and textiles production supplemented each other well into
the twentieth century."
Correspondence: F. M. M.
Hendrickx, University of Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9103, 6500 HD Nijmegen,
Netherlands. Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
64:10542 Hungary. Központi Statisztikai
Hivatal (Budapest, Hungary); Hungary. Magyar Tudományos
Akadémia. Demográfiai Bizottsága (Budapest,
Hungary). The population history of Hungary (896-1995). A
product of the millecentenary. [Magyarország
történeti demográfiája (896-1995).
Millecentenáriumi eloadások.] ISBN 963-215-148-8. 1997.
417 pp. Budapest, Hungary. In Hun. with sum. in Eng.
This is a
selection of papers by various authors presented at four conferences
held in Hungary in 1995 and 1996. The conferences, held in honor of the
millecentenary, were organized around the theme of Hungary's population
history from its beginnings in the ninth century up to the present. The
conferences and papers cover four main historical periods: the Arpadian
age, the period from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, the
period from 1720 to 1870, and the modern era. An English summary of all
the contributions, written by one of the main organizers, József
Kovacsics, is included.
Correspondence: Központi
Statisztikai Hivatal, Petrezselyem u. 7-9, 1024 Budapest II, Hungary.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:10543 Schrover, Marlou. The
demographic consequences of changing employment opportunities: women in
the Dutch Meierij in the nineteenth century. History of the
Family, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1997. 451-80 pp. Greenwich, Connecticut. In Eng.
"In the nineteenth century, the demographic development of the
Meierij, a region in the south-east of the Netherlands, was different
from that of the rest of modernizing northern Europe. Infant mortality
remained high, while it dropped elsewhere. The article shows why the
current explanation for high infant mortality, which links a sustained
high infant mortality to a change in feeding habits is not valid.
Increased fertility due, among other reasons, to a lower marital age
offers a better explanation. Changes in economic options open to
unmarried women provide the clue. With fewer premarital occupational
possibilities, women would have been more inclined to marry, or there
would have been less pressure on them to forestall a marriage in order
to profit to the full from the occupational options. More and earlier
marriages meant more children were born, and also a higher infant
mortality rate."
Location: Princeton University
Library (PR).
64:10544 Wang, Yaosheng. The
study of change in able-bodied men and the population of China in the
early eighteenth century. Chinese Journal of Population Science,
Vol. 9, No. 2, 1997. 87-100 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
"What was the population of able-bodied men and the overall
population of China in the eighteenth century? This paper first
investigates the statistical methods to determine the population of
able-bodied men of China in the eighteenth century. Next, this paper
corrects some data for the population of able-bodied men which were
obviously incorrect. Finally, the relationship between the number of
able-bodied men to the number of total families, and the ratio of the
population of able-bodied men to the overall population [are]
investigated...."
Correspondence: Y. Wang, Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Population Science, 5
Jianguomen Nei Da Jie 5 Hao, Beijing, China. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:10545 Wrigley, E. A.; Davies, R. S.;
Oeppen, J. E.; Schofield, R. S. English population history
from family reconstitution, 1580-1837. Cambridge Studies in
Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, No. 32, ISBN
0-521-59015-9. LC 96-47524. 1997. xxii, 657 pp. Cambridge University
Press: New York, New York/Cambridge, England. In Eng.
This book is
intended as a complement to Wrigley and Schofield's Population History
of England. It uses data from Anglican parish registers and the
technique of family reconstitution to illuminate the population history
of England from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. "This
second work demonstrates the value of the technique of family
reconstitution as a means of obtaining accurate and detailed
information about fertility, mortality, and nuptiality in the
past....Using data from 26 parishes, the authors show clearly that
their results are representative not only of the demographic situation
of the parishes from which the data were drawn, but also of the country
as a whole. While the book largely confirms the earlier findings of the
Cambridge Group [for the History of Population and Social Structure],
many novel and some very surprising features of the behaviour of past
populations are brought to light for the first
time."
Correspondence: Cambridge University Press,
Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RP, England.
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.
64:10546 Bengtsson, Tommy; Broström,
Göran. Distinguishing time-series models by impulse
response: a case study of mortality and population economy.
Historical Methods, Vol. 30, No. 4, Fall 1997. 165-71 pp. Washington,
D.C. In Eng.
"The use of different methods in the analysis of
demographic time series, which has followed the general development of
time-series analysis, has caused some problems. First, we need to know
which method is best suited to analyze short-term changes in population
in relation to economic cycles and other variables. Second, it is very
difficult to compare the historical development of different countries,
because different methods have been used....In this article, we attempt
to compare the different methods used so far and limit ourselves to
methods in the time domain. We first discuss it theoretically, then
illustrate ideas on two national Swedish historical time series:
mortality for ages 25 to 55 and yearly real wages for the years
1751-1850."
Correspondence: T. Bengtsson, University
of Lund, Department of Economic History, P.O. Box 7083, 220 07 Lund,
Sweden. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:10547 Post, Wendy; van Poppel, Frans; van
Imhoff, Evert; Kruse, Ellen. Reconstructing the extended
kin-network in the Netherlands with genealogical data: methods,
problems, and results. Population Studies, Vol. 51, No. 3, Nov
1997. 263-78 pp. London, England. In Eng.
"This paper
discusses the use of genealogical data for the study of the historical
development of kinship networks in the Netherlands, 1830-1990. There
are two main problems in using genealogies: the year of death is
missing for a sizeable part of the research population; and the
information available on all relevant branches is far from complete. A
mixed estimation procedure was used to impute the missing years of
death. Overcoming the second problem is more difficult; the only
solution was to exclude individuals without children from the analysis.
If these and other limitations of genealogies are not ignored and the
effects of various types of under-registration are carefully assessed,
genealogies can provide valuable information for our understanding of
historical kinship patterns. The empirical results, using data on more
than 160,000 persons, show that demographic changes in Dutch society
during the last 160 years have significantly affected the kinship
configuration."
Correspondence: W. Post, Netherlands
Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, Postbus 11650, 2502 AR The
Hague, Netherlands. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
64:10548 Renard, Claude. The
Louis Henry survey: a bibliography. [Enquête Louis Henry:
bibliographie de l'enquête.] INED Dossiers et Recherches, No. 61,
Sep 1997. 82 pp. Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques
[INED]: Paris, France. In Fre.
This is an annotated bibliography of
over 300 studies concerning the historical demographic project
initiated by Louis Henry in 1959, which aimed to reconstitute the
population of France from 1670 to 1829. The bibliography, which is
organized chronologically, is divided into four topics: The origins and
intellectual roots of Henry's initiative; Studies on the project and
its methodology; Publications using data from the project at the
primary level; and Studies using results from the project at the
secondary level. An index of authors is
provided.
Correspondence: Institut National d'Etudes
Démographiques, 27 rue du Commandeur, 75675 Paris Cedex 14,
France. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
