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.
64:40545 Asociación de
Demografía Histórica (Barcelona, Spain).
Bulletin of the Historical Demography Association.
[Boletín de la Asociación de Demografía
Histórica.] Boletín de la Asociación de
Demografía Histórica, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1998. 389 pp.
Barcelona, Spain. In Por. with sum. in Eng; Fre.
This special issue
is devoted to the research carried out at NEPS, the Núcleo de
Estudos da População e Sociedad located at the
Universidade do Minho in Brazil. The 11 contributions describe the
findings of several of the research projects undertaken at NEPS,
primarily concerning the historical demography of the Brazilian
population.
Correspondence: Asociación de
Demografía Histórica, Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona, Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics, Edifici E2, 08193
Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
64:40546 Bailey, Roy E.; Chambers, Marcus
J. The impact of real wage and mortality fluctuations on
fertility and nuptiality in precensus England. Journal of
Population Economics, Vol. 11, No. 3, Aug 1998. 413-34 pp. Berlin,
Germany. In Eng.
"This paper explores the responses of
fertility and nuptiality to fluctuations in real wages and mortality
that can be inferred from annual series of English historical data over
the period 1542 to 1800. The paper begins with a review of the time
series properties of the data and summarizes the long-term equilibrium
relationships identified in previous work.... An investigation is made
of the impact of shocks to real wages and mortality on demographic
variables as measured by generalized impulse responses and persistence
profiles."
Correspondence: R. E. Bailey, University of
Essex, Department of Economics, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ,
England. E-mail: rbailey@essex.ac.uk. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
64:40547 Da Molin, Giovanna.
Population and society: demographic systems in the Kingdom of
Naples in the modern era. [Popolazione e società: sistemi
demografici nel Regno di Napoli in età moderna.] Saggi e
Ricerche, No. 8, LC 96-230728. 1995. 248 pp. Cacucci Editore: Bari,
Italy. In Ita.
This is a collection of six studies by the author,
some previously published and some read at conferences but not yet
published. They all concern aspects of demography in southern Italy
during the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. The titles are as
follows: Archival sources and historical demographic research in
southern Italy (seventeenth to nineteenth centuries); Evolution of the
population and demographic mechanisms in the kingdom of Naples in the
modern era (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries); Mobility of peasants
from Puglia between the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the
nineteenth centuries; Famine and epidemic in 1763-1764 in Capitanata [a
province of the kingdom of Naples]; The demographic development of
Foggia from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century; and Modalities of
child abandonment and characteristics of exposed children in
seventeenth-century Naples.
Correspondence: Cacucci
Editore, Via Nicolai 17, 70122 Bari, Italy. Location: Harvard
University Library, Cambridge, MA.
64:40548 Dupâquier, J.; Garden, M.;
Théré, C.; Leridon, H. Population and
history. [Population et historie.] Population, Vol. 53, No. 1-2,
Jan-Apr 1998. iii, 438 pp. Institut National d'Etudes
Démographiques [INED]: Paris, France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng;
Spa.
This special issue is dedicated to three eminent demographers,
Jean-Noël Biraben, Jacqueline Hecht, and Jacques Houdaille. The 17
papers are organized into three sections on the history of demographic
ideas and theories, the INED historical survey on the population of
France from 1500 to 1900, and the analysis of demographic data and
trends. Bibliographies of the work of Biraben, Hecht, and Houdaille are
also included.
Selected items will be cited in this or subsequent
issues of Population Index.
Correspondence: Institut
National d'Etudes Démographiques, 133 boulevard Davout, 75980
Paris Cedex 20, France. E-mail: ined@ined.fr. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:40549 France. Institut National d'Etudes
Démographiques [INED] (Paris, France). Analysis of
demographic facts and behavior. [L'analyse des faits et des
comportements démographiques.] Population, Vol. 53, No. 1-2,
Jan-Apr 1998. 271-397 pp. Paris, France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng; Spa.
This section contains six studies on various historical demographic
topics. They are: The demographic history of abortion, by Etienne Van
de Walle; The components of biological kinship in a regime of natural
fertility: the example of old Quebec, by Jean-François Naud,
Bertrand Desjardins, and Hubert Charbonneau; London or Paris? A great
debate in political arithmetic (1662-1759), by Jacques Dupâquier;
For a socio-economic study of small towns: the example of Belley in
1695, by Olivier Zeller; The urban surplus of women in preindustrial
France and the role of domestic service, by Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux;
and Cholera and the question of insanitary housing in Paris
(1832-1849), by René le Mée.
Correspondence:
Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques, 133 boulevard
Davout, 75980 Paris Cedex 20, France. E-mail: ined@ined.fr.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:40550 France. Institut National d'Etudes
Démographiques [INED] (Paris, France). The history
of demographic thought and inquiry. [Sur l'histoire des
idées et des savoirs démographiques.] Population, Vol.
53, No. 1-2, Jan-Apr 1998. 13-177 pp. Paris, France. In Fre. with sum.
in Eng; Spa.
This selection of eight studies on aspects of the
history of demographic thought and theory contains articles on Cyrano
de Bergerac, Gottfried Leibniz, Louis Messance, and Thomas Malthus.
There are also articles on the debate about polygamy in
eighteenth-century France, the use of the quipu as a source of
information on the population of the Americas, and the tahirs (or
censuses) of 1885 and 1907 in the Ottoman
Empire.
Correspondence: Institut National d'Etudes
Démographiques, 133 boulevard Davout, 75980 Paris Cedex 20,
France. E-mail: ined@ined.fr. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
64:40551 Mills, Dennis; Schürer,
Kevin. Local communities in the Victorian census
enumerators' books. ISBN 0-904920-33-X. 1996. [xii], 450 pp.
Leopard's Head Press: Oxford, England. In Eng.
This book, which is
a supplement to the journal Local Population Studies, presents a
selection of articles by various authors on the census enumerators'
books (CEBs), one of the key documentary sources of information about
life in Victorian England. "This volume is divided into six key
parts, each developing a particular theme. They are, as follows: the
enumeration process; population and demography; employment and
occupations; migration and population turnover; family and household
structure; residential patterns. Each part is introduced by an
editorial chapter which explores the potential and possibilities of the
CEBs in relation to the themes in question, as well as providing an
overview of previous research work and the approaches taken. The points
raised in the editorials are then illustrated by a number of chapters
based on articles originally published in the Local Population Studies
journal, specially revised and extended for this
volume."
Correspondence: Leopard's Head Press, 1-5
Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3AW, England. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
64:40552 Moring, Beatrice. Family
strategies, systems of inheritance, and the care of the elderly in
eastern and western Finland from a historical perspective.
[Estrategias familiares, sistemas hereditarios y el cuidado de los
ancianos en Finlandia oriental y occidental desde una perspectiva
histórica.] Boletín de la Asociación de
Demografía Histórica, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1997. 113-34 pp.
Madrid, Spain. In Spa. with sum. in Eng; Fre.
Some factors
affecting the situation of the elderly in pre-industrial Finland are
analyzed. "The strategies for survival in a traditional agrarian
society differed from those of the parts of Europe already integrated
into capitalism and a monetary economy. Over time the efforts of the
landholders to keep their land and provide for their children came to
grief with the increase in population and the impossibility of
continuous expansion within the agrarian sector. With the
proletarianisation insecurity in old age became a prospect for an
increasing part of the population and the societal responses of
countries that had experienced industrialisation at an earlier date had
to be sought."
Correspondence: B. Moring, Renvall
Institute of Historical Research, P.O. Box 59, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:40553 Séguy, Isabelle.
Surveys in historical demography. The Jean-Noël Biraben
Survey: the population of France from 1500 to 1700. A list of the
sources for the numerical part of the survey. [Enquêtes de
démographie historique. Enquête Jean-Noël Biraben. La
population de la France de 1500 à 1700. Répertoire des
sources de la partie numérique de l'enquête.] INED
Dossiers et Recherches, No. 67, Apr 1998. 35 pp. Institut National
d'Etudes Démographiques [INED]: Paris, France. In Fre.
This
document presents a list of the sources of the data used in the
historical demographic survey developed under the direction of
Jean-Noël Biraben. The sources consist of French parish registers,
and information is provided on the names of the department, commune,
and parish concerned, and on the years for which the data on baptisms,
marriages, and burials have been used in the
survey.
Correspondence: Institut National d'Etudes
Démographiques, 133 boulevard Davout, 75980 Paris Cedex 20,
France. E-mail: ined@ined.fr. 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.
64:40554 Arkell, Tom; Whiteman, Anne.
Mean household size in mid-Tudor England: Clackclose hundred,
Norfolk. Local Population Studies, No. 60, Spring 1998. 20-33 pp.
Cambridge, England. In Eng.
The authors attempt to determine
whether mean household size for the whole of England during the
Elizabethan period can be calculated from the available data. "In
Tudor times, some 90 per cent or so of the English population still
lived in the countryside and small towns, for which census-type
evidence is remarkably rare. In this article we examine the few which
have survived for the later sixteenth century and concentrate in
particular on one major source for part of Norfolk, which has been
seriously under used so far."
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
64:40555 Bocquet-Appel, Jean-Pierre; Bacro,
Jean N. Estimates of some demographic parameters in a
Neolithic rock-cut chamber (approximately 2000 BC) using iterative
techniques for aging and demographic estimators. American Journal
of Physical Anthropology, Vol. 102, No. 4, Apr 1997. 569-75 pp. New
York, New York. In Eng.
"Two new techniques--one
anthropological, which estimates the mean age at death for adult
skeletons, the other demographic, which gives main survivorship curve
parameters--are used on a sample of skeletons (N=170) discovered in a
Neolithic rock-cut chamber (Loisy-en-Brie, France). The iterative
technique for aging used a stochastic sampled F matrix derived from the
trabecular involution of the femoral head observed in the reference
collection of Coimbra (Portugal; N=421). The results, obtained from
techniques and data, independent of each other, are strongly
consistent. Overall, they give a life expectancy at birth of about
25-28 years and the probability of death at 1 and 5 years,
respectively, of about .271-.249 and
.429-.380."
Correspondence: J.-P. Bocquet-Appel,
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 152, Musée de
l'Homme, 17 place du Trocadero, 75116 Paris, France. E-mail:
bocquet@mnhn.fr. Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
64:40556 Bonneuil, Noël.
Reconstructing the female population of the department of
Hérault between 1856 and 1906 using data from the Statistique
Générale of France. [Reconstruire la population
féminine de l'Hérault entre 1856 et 1906, à partir
des données de la Statistique Générale de la
France.] Population, Vol. 53, No. 3, May-Jun 1998. 517-33 pp. Paris,
France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng; Spa.
"The reconstruction of
populations on the basis of imperfect statistics encounters problems
notably in the form of under-registration, age-heaping, and the
difficulty of estimating migrations. In a recent book dealing with all
of France's departments, the author presented a solution which involved
a minimum of modification to the raw data and which enabled
demography's fundamental equations to be satisfied. This article
applies that approach to the case of the Hérault
département, where the statistics for the middle of the
nineteenth century are particularly poor. The exact nature of the
difficulties is explored and a rigorous solution set
out."
Correspondence: N. Bonneuil, Institut National
d'Etudes Démographiques, 133 boulevard Davout, 75980 Paris Cedex
20, France. E-mail: bonneuil@ciloas.ined.fr. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:40557 Parkinson, Elizabeth.
Interpreting the Compton census returns of 1676 for the diocese of
Llandaff. Local Population Studies, No. 60, Spring 1998. 48-57 pp.
Cambridge, England. In Eng.
"One of the main sources for
estimating population totals in the later-seventeenth century is the
Compton census of 1676. This ecclesiastical census was intended to
provide estimates, made up from individual parish returns, of the
number of conformists, popish recusants and protestant dissenters in
England and Wales.... This paper examines the Compton returns for part
of Llandaff diocese...."
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
64:40558 Wrigley, E. A. How
reliable is our knowledge of the demographic characteristics of the
English population in the early modern period? Historical Journal,
Vol. 40, No. 3, Sep 1997. 571-95 pp. Cambridge, England. In Eng.
"Anglican parish registers have been the basis for most
studies of population trends and characteristics in early modern
England, and one of the most important of the techniques used in
analysing them has been family reconstitution.... This article attempts
to describe the range of difficulties and dilemmas involved in studying
the demography of populations in the past when using this source of
data and this technique of analysis. A variety of tests is deployed to
establish the degree of reliability attaching to the results obtained
in a recent exercise based on the family reconstitution of 26 parishes,
and more generally to assess the opportunities open to scholarship in
this area and the pitfalls associated with such
work."
Correspondence: E. A. Wrigley, University of
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge CB2 1RH, England.
Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
