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FAMILY LIFE COURSE (Garland Studies in Historical Demography)

Baird

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Fatal Years - Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth Century America

Samuel H. Preston, Michael Haines

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Editorial Review:

Fatal Years is the first systematic study of child mortality in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Exploiting newly discovered data from the 1900 Census of Population, Samuel Preston and Michael Haines present their findings in a volume that is not only a pioneering work of demography but also an accessible and moving historical narrative. Despite having a rich, well-fed, and highly literate population, the United States had exceptionally high child-mortality levels during this period: nearly one out of every five children died before the age of five. Preston and Haines challenge accepted opinion to show that losses in privileged social groups were as appalling as those among lower classes. Improvements came only with better knowledge about infectious diseases and greater public efforts to limit their spread. The authors look at a wide range of topics, including differences in mortality in urban versus rural areas and the differences in child mortality among various immigration groups. "Fatal Years is an extremely important contribution to our understanding of child mortality in the United States at the turn of the century. The new data and its analysis force everyone to reconsider previous work and statements about U.S. mortality in that period. The book will quickly become a standard in the field."--Maris A. Vinovskis, University of Michigan

Fertility Change on the American Frontier: Adaptation and Innovation (Studies in Demography)

Lee L. Bean, Geraldine P. Mineau, Douglas L. Anderton

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Filling Up America: An Economic-Demographic Model of Population Growth and Distribution in the 19th Century U.S. (Industrial Development and the Social Fabric)

Morton Owen Schapiro

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The First Immigrants from Asia: A Population History of the North American Indian

A.J. Jaffe

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`The result is a descriptive, analytic...combination of demographic, anthropological, and sociological insights;...crisp evaluations of available prehistoric and early historical source materials; [and]> distinctions in abundance between what is known, remains speculative, or may well be inherently unknowable.' From the Foreword by George Stolnitz

From Provinces into Nations: Demographic Integration in Western Europe, 1870-1960

Susan Cotts Watkins

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Between 1870 and 1960, national boundaries became more evident on the demographic map of Western Europe. In most of the fifteen countries examined here, differences in marital fertility, illegitimacy, and marriage from one province (counties, cantons, arrondissements) to another diminished considerably. From Provinces into Nations describes this shift to greater national demographic homogeneity and places it in the context of a parallel decline in linguistic diversity, as well as in the context of increases in national market integration, the expansion of state activities, and nation-building. The book interprets the shift as evidence of the influence of communities on demographic behavior, and as an indication of the growing predominance of national over local communities. The author uses demographic data, too often the property of specialists, to examine themes of interest to historians, sociologists, economists, and political scientists interested in the integration of modern societies.

Guests in the Dragon

Burton Pasternak

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Using data from the Taiwan household registers established by Japanese colonial authorities from 1906 to 1946, Pasternak explores the sources and demographic consequences of variations in marriage and family life and questions long-held assumptions about the nature of Chinese society.

How Jewish communities differ: Variations in the findings of local Jewish population studies

Ira M Sheskin

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The practical usefulness of local demographic comparison studies 5 out of 5 stars.
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I have just heard Ira Sheskin present the results of his comparitive researches on local Jewish communities throughout the United States. I was deeply impressed by his ability to make use of the data to provide advice to local communities in regard to future allocation of resources. I have for years been hearing demographers speak about the American Jewish community's profile but I have never read or heard anything as detailed and insightful as Sheskin's presentation.
This present work is a more limited and earlier example of the kind of the more comprehensive study I heard him survey.

Hungry generations;: The nineteenth-century case against Malthusianism

Harold A Boner

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Rise and fall of the Malthusian ideology 5 out of 5 stars.
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Nice to see this work now available, for this is an old gem of a history of the impact of Malthus and the resulting debate which lasted for two generations in great acrimony and much political back and forth. Malthus' rejection of the new claims for progressive amelioration and the possibility of social progress, timed with his appearance in the reaction to the French Revolution made him a pivot of conservative propaganda. Drawing almost all the major figures of cultural life from Godwin onward into its orbit the debate seems hard to take seriously now,one winces at some of the absurdities here, but makes positive definite as a test case the process of ideological propaganda. The brief victory of Malthus in the period of the Reform Bill proved in fact his gradual undoing, and yet his influence conditioned even Darwin's theory of evolution and the issues remain thus concealed in in less blatant or better disguised forms even to this day (witness George Bush on Social Secuarity).

Infant and Child Mortality in the Past (International Studies in Demography)

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This volume examines the trends of early-age mortality across time and space and the methodological and theoretical problems inherent in such studies. The approach is interdisciplinary, with contributions from demography, biology, medicine, and economic and social history. The geographical range encompasses Europe, North America, Japan, and India.