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Demographic Behavior in the Past: A Study of Fourteen German Village Populations in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Brossura

Knodel, John E.

 
9780521892810: Demographic Behavior in the Past: A Study of Fourteen German Village Populations in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
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ISBN 10: 0521892813 ISBN 13: 9780521892810
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Sinossi

This book examines the demographic behaviour of families in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Germany.

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Descrizione del libro

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.

Contenuti

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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Editore
Cambridge University Press
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0521892813
ISBN 13 
9780521892810
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
614
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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