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.
65:41149 Codina, Jaume. The
turning point in 1750: the origins of modern population growth.
[El gir de 1750: origen y creixement modern de la població.]
Collecció d'Assaig Argent Viu, Vol. 29, ISBN 84-7935-489-5. LC
98-167339. 1998. 160 pp. Pagès Editors: Lleida, Spain. In Cat.
The author explores the root causes of the demographic transition
that began in Spain in the middle of the eighteenth century. Particular
attention is given to the relative lack of interest that has been paid
to the demographic history of Catalonia in comparison to Spain as a
whole and the rest of the world.
Correspondence:
Pagès Editors, C/Bobalà, 4-2504 Lleida, Spain.
Location: U.S. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
65:41150 Del Vita, Anna; Lombardi, Elena C.;
Maggino, Filomena; Pardini, Edoardo; Rocchetti, Alberto; Stefania,
Giovanna; Tesi, Gino. The elevated mortality of 1816-1817
and the "volcano winters" [L'alta mortalità nel
1816-1817 e gli "inverni del vulcano"] Bollettino di
Demografia Storica, No. 29, 1998. 71-89 pp. Bologna, Italy. In Ita.
The author examines the hypothesis that the elevated mortality due
to famine and typhus reported in the Italian duchies of Lucca and
Tuscany in 1816 had its origins in failed harvests caused by the
obscuring of the sun as a result of the eruption of the volcano Tambora
in 1815.
Correspondence: G. Tesi, Università degli
Studi di Firenze, Istituto di Antropologia, Florence, Italy.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
65:41151 Galley, Chris. The
demography of early modern towns: York in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries. Liverpool Studies in European Population, ISBN
0-85323-503-1. LC 99-231182. 1998. xiv, 220 pp. Liverpool University
Press: Liverpool, England. In Eng.
This book is about the urban
demography of towns and cities in England in the early modern period
(1540-1700). "Much of the book's focus will be concerned with
three issues that need to be resolved in order for the demography of
towns to become better understood. The first relates to the relative
paucity of information that is available about urban demography and
will be addressed by means of a case study of York, England's `second
city', between 1561 and 1700. This approach is in part necessitated by
the time-consuming nature of demographic analysis in the parish
register period, but it also has advantages. All the relevant
demographic material for a single city can be consulted and this will
enable any changes to the demographic regime to be identified.... The
second set of issues relate to the debate about the nature of urban
demography. The results from York will therefore be examined in a wider
context; comparable material from other English and European cities
will be introduced where appropriate and as a means of resolving some
of the current debates a generalized model describing the mechanisms of
urban demography will be proposed and justified. Once the dynamics of
change within urban demographic regimes have been discussed a third set
of wider issues can be addressed. These relate to the impact of
urbanization on national demographic regimes and to longer-term urban
demographic changes."
Correspondence: Liverpool
University Press, Senate House, Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 3BX,
England. Location: Princeton University Library (FST).
65:41152 Gopinath, Ravindran.
Understanding pre-transitional fertility in colonial Malabar.
Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. 35, No. 1, Jan-Mar
1998. 69-95 pp. New Delhi, India. In Eng.
This article explores the
historical antecedents of present-day Kerala's low levels of fertility.
"It does so by raising two questions--first, what was the level of
fertility in colonial Malabar, and second, what were the demographic
and non-demographic factors responsible for the observed level of
fertility. Apart from discovering the specifics of colonial Malabar's
demographic regime, this article hopes to highlight the existence of a
variety of pre-transitional demographic regimes in India. Based on data
for the erstwhile Malabar district, which constituted the three
northern divisions of modern Kerala state, it attempts to utilise the
infrequently used but much maligned vital registration figures in
conjunction with standard census
information."
Correspondence: R. Gopinath, Jamia
Millia Islamia, Department of History, New Delhi 110 025, India.
Location: Princeton University Library (PF).
65:41153 Marcilio, Maria L. The
ethno-demography of abandoned children in the history of Brazil:
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. [A etnodemografia da
criança abandonada na história do Brasil: séculos
18 e 19.] Latin American Population History Bulletin, No. 28, Fall
1998. 2-11 pp. Minneapolis, Minnesota. In Por.
The history of
abandoning unwanted children at birth in Brazil is outlined, and some
comparisons are made with the concurrent situation in Europe. The
author notes that although abandonments did occur over the course of
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, they never exceeded 20% of
total live births, unlike the situation in some European cities where
rates reached as high as 50%. The rate of illegitimate births was also
high, particularly in the cities, reaching as high as 50% of live
births in the non-slave population at times. The extremely high
mortality rates of abandoned children are also
noted.
Correspondence: M. L. Marcilio, Universidade de
São Paulo, Departamento de História, São Paulo,
Brazil. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
65:41154 Michel, Harald; Lischke,
Ralph-Jürgen. Biographical reference for the history
of demography. Part I: contributors to scientific demographic thought
in the German-speaking world from the sixteenth to the nineteenth
century. [Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte der Demographie.
Teil I: Personen des bevölkerungswissenschaftlichen Denkens im
deutschsprachigen Raum vom 16.-19. Jahrhundert.] Edition IFAD, No. IV,
Jan 1999. 114 pp. Institut für Angewandte Demographie: Berlin,
Germany. In Ger.
Following an overview of the history of demography
in Europe, this publication presents short biographical sketches of
about 80 significant individuals in the field of German demography from
the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Their publications are noted,
and a bibliography is provided for each entry in addition to a general
bibliography at the end.
Correspondence: Institut für
Angewandte Demographie, Sophienstraße 3, 10178 Berlin, Germany.
E-mail: ifad@ifad.b.shuttle.de. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
65:41155 Pla Alberola, Primitivo J.
The Valencian population in the second half of the sixteenth
century. [La población valenciana en la segunda mitad del
siglo XVI.] In: Felipe II y el mediterráneo, Volumen I: los
recursos humanos y materiales. 1999. 99-117, [2] pp. Sociedad Estatal
para la Conmemoración de los Centenarios de Felipe II y Carlos
V: Madrid, Spain. In Spa.
The author reviews demographic trends in
the province of Valencia, Spain, in the late sixteenth century.
Information is provided on population size, growth rates, and
determinants of growth.
Correspondence: P. J. Pla Alberola,
Universidad de Alicante, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras,
Departamento de Historia Medieval e Moderna, 03690 Alicante, Spain.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
65:41156 Sanderson, Jean-Paul.
The demographic debate in colonial Belgium as revealed by an
analysis of the content. [Le discours démographique
colonial belge à l'épreuve de l'analyse de contenu.] SPED
Document de Travail, No. 4, Aug 1999. 29 pp. Université
Catholique de Louvain, Département des Sciences de la Population
et du Développement: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. In Fre.
This
is an analysis of the Belgian literature from the colonial period
concerning the demography of the Belgian Congo (the Congo, Democratic
Republic/Zaire). The focus is on the extent to which the literature
dealt with the demographic topics that were important to the colonial
authorities. The author concludes that, although the government was
convinced that from 1925 on the population was growing in size, the
main focus of scholars was on the reasons for what was thought of as a
decline in population size.
Correspondence:
Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut de
Démographie, Département des Sciences de la Population et
du Développement, 1 place Montesquieu, B.P. 4, 1348
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. E-mail: letocart@sped.ucl.ac.be.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
65:41157 Scheidel, Walter.
Measuring sex, age and death in the Roman Empire: explorations in
ancient demography. JRA Supplementary Series, No. 21, ISBN
1-887829-21-0. 1996. 184 pp. Journal of Roman Archaeology: Portsmouth,
Rhode Island. In Eng.
This study examines some aspects of the
demography of the Roman Empire. "This book focuses on the three
fundamental facets of this process: sex, the preservation of life
through male-female mating; age, a factor that helps to determine one's
rôle in the reproductive process and thus in society at large;
and death, an event which forecloses further reproduction." Topics
covered include brother-sister marriage in Roman Egypt, the reported
ages of both the living and the dead in Roman Egypt, and age and death
in Latin inscriptions concerning the Roman army of the
Principate.
Correspondence: Journal of Roman Archaeology,
95 Peleg Road, Portsmouth, RI 02871. Location: Princeton
University Library (SA).
65:41158 Scott, Susan; Duncan, C. J.
Characteristics of population cycles in pre-industrial
England. Local Population Studies, No. 62, Spring 1999. 70-6 pp.
Colchester, England. In Eng.
"Time-series analysis of
baptismal and burial records of English parishes suggests that both the
exogenous and endogenous cycles have common characteristics; in
particular their periodicity (or wavelength of the cycles) seems to be
remarkably standardized. Their regularity provides us with important
clues concerning the underlying population
dynamics."
Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
65:41159 Sonnino, Eugenio.
Population and society in Rome from the middle ages to the
present. [Popolazione e società a Roma dal medioevo
all'età contemporanea.] ISBN 88-86148-49-6. 1998. xvi, 824 pp.
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento di
Scienze Demografiche: Rome, Italy; Editrice il Calamo: Rome, Italy. In
Ita.
This volume is a collection of studies by various authors on
the population history of Rome; the papers were first presented at a
series of seminars and discussion sessions at the University of Rome in
1993. The first section has ten studies on the demographic and
territorial evolution of the city from the fourth century to
unification in the nineteenth. The second section, on kinship networks
and family structures, contains five studies on family life from the
middle ages to the nineteenth century. The third section consists of
eight chapters on Rome's economy and industries from the high middle
ages to the nineteenth century. The fourth section, with seven
articles, focuses on the demographic and social aspects of health and
public assistance from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. The
fifth section has six studies on the social aspects of the judicial
system and criminality during the same time span. The sixth section
contains four papers on the religious population and its social
relations. The seventh and final section, with four articles, focuses
on the Jewish population of Rome.
Correspondence: Editrice
il Calamo, Via B. Telesio, 4/b, 00195 Rome, Italy. E-mail:
info@ilcalamo.com. 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.
65:41160 Alesan, Alícia; Malgosa,
Assumpció; Simó, Carles. Looking into the
demography of an Iron Age population in the western Mediterranean. I:
mortality. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Vol. 110,
No. 3, Nov 1999. 285-301 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
"In
this paper, we attempt to reconstruct the mortality pattern of the
population buried in S'Illot des Porros (Majorca) [Spain], an Iron Age
necropolis in the western Mediterranean, by means of paleodemographic
analysis. The skeletal sample consists of 285 individuals, 93 subadults
(under 20 years old) and 192 adults. The aim of this study is twofold:
first, to identify and to evaluate the structural anomalies of the
skeletal sample, and second, to obtain a possible and realistic
description of the biological dynamics of this population, with special
reference to its mortality pattern. The study uses current demographic
methodology and several demographic models (for comparison).... The use
of the Brass logit system allowed us to sketch a possible mortality
profile for this population: low life expectancy, high infant mortality
and hard life conditions, which were the cause of the low levels of
survivorship in old ages."
Correspondence: A. Malgosa,
Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Departament de Biologia
Animal, Biologia Vegetal i Ecologia, Unitat d'Antropologia, Edifici C,
08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain. E-mail: Assumpcio.Malgosa@uab.es.
Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
65:41161 Kinoshita, Futoshi.
Underregistration of births in shumon aratame-cho: a long-standing
unsolved issue in Japanese historical demography. Jinkogaku
Kenkyu/Journal of Population Studies, No. 25, Dec 1999. 27-39 pp.
Tokyo, Japan. In Jpn. with sum. in Eng.
"This article deals
with a long-standing unsolved issue in Japanese historical demography.
This is the issue of birth underregistration in shumon aratame-cho
(SAC), which has been the main data source in the field for the last
thirty years or so. The issue of... birth underregistration prevents
researchers from accurately estimating infant mortality as well as
fertility, and makes it very difficult to compare these indices with
those of other societies."
Correspondence: F.
Kinoshita, Konan Women's College, Department of Liberal Arts, Aichi,
Japan. Location: Princeton University Library (Gest).
65:41162 Lacour, Claude; Gervais-Aguer,
Marie-Martine. Population and land: The real story about a
bogus linkage. [Populations et territoires: la vraie vie d'un faux
couple.] In: Démographie et aménagement du territoire:
actes du Xe colloque national de démographie. Bordeaux--21, 22,
23 mai 1996, edited by Janine d'Armagnac, Chantal Blayo, and Alain
Parant. 1999. 53-64 pp. Conférence Universitaire de
Démographie et d'Etude des Populations [CUDEP]: Paris, France;
Presses Universitaires de France: Paris, France. In Fre.
The
problems inherent in the two different approaches to the study of
historical populations used in demographic analysis and spatial
analysis are examined. Concerning the links between a territory and a
population, the authors identify two major problems: the first is a
tendency toward a quantitative approach to the study of the population
that ignores territorial issues, and the second is a tendency to focus
on particular populations for which data and analytical methods are
available. The authors also note how these two different approaches to
the study of population have been affected by the development of the
modern nation-state.
Correspondence: C. Lacour,
Université Montesquieu--Bordeaux IV, Avenue Léon-Duguit,
33608 Pessac, France. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
