Demographic behavior in the past : a study of fourteen German village populations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
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Demographic behavior in the past : a study of fourteen German village populations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
(Cambridge studies in population, economy and society in past time, 6)
Cambridge University Press, 1988
Available at 47 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 557-570
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book provides a detailed examination of the demographic behavior of families during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a sample of fourteen villages in five different regions of Germany. It is based on the reconstituted family histories of vital events (births, deaths and marriages) compiled by genealogies for the entire populations of these villages. The book applies the type of micro-level analysis possible with family reconstitution data for the crucial period leading to and encompassing the early stages of the demographic transition, including the initial onset of the decline of fertility to low modern levels. The analysis explores many aspects of demographic behavior which have been largely ignored by previous macro-level investigations of the demographic transition. These include infant and child mortality, maternal mortality, marriage, marital dissolution, bridal pregnancy and illegitimacy. The core of the study, however, deals with marital reproduction, examining the modernization of reproductive behavior in terms of the transition from a situation of natural fertility to one characterized by pervasive family limitation.
Table of Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Part I. Introduction: 1. Family reconstitution and the historical study of demographic behaviour
- 2. The source and the sample
- Part II. Mortality: 3. Infant and child mortality: levels, trends and seasonality
- 4. Infant and mortality: socio-economic and demographic differentials
- 5. Maternal mortality
- Part III. Family Formation: 6. Marriage
- 7. Marital dissolution and remarriage
- 8. Illegitimacy
- 9. Bridal pregnancy and prenuptial births
- Part IV. Marital Reproduction: 10. Trends in marital fertility and underlying natural fertility components
- 11. From natural fertility to family limitation
- 12. Starting, stopping, spacing and the fertility transition
- Part V. Interrelationships in Demographic Behaviour: 13. Family size, fertility and nuptiality interrelationships
- 14. Child mortality and reproductive behaviour
- Part VI. Conclusion: 15. Population dynamics of the past: summing up
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index.
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