Population history and the family : a Journal of interdisciplinary history reader / edited by Robert I. Rotberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rotberg, Robert I.

Series:

Journal of interdisciplinary history readers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--History.

Families.

History.

Family demography--History.

Family demography.

Fertility, Human--History.

Fertility, Human.

Population--History.

Population.

Physical Description:

390 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2001]

Summary:

For more than thirty years, interdisciplinary history has included the study of all aspects of the family, including births, marriages, and household composition. This collection looks at the many dimensions of the study of populations and population movements. It ranges across continents and time, showing how the reconstruction of the past is incomplete without attention to questions of fertility and seasonality, as well as to the impact of demographic variables on social, political, and economic history. Contributors Francis Brooks, Edward Byers, Michael Craton, David Cressy, Robert Eng, Michael Haines, Barbara Hanawalt, Daniel Kaiser, W. R. Lee, Daniel Quinlan, Anita Rutman, Darrett Rutman, Jean Shackelford, Thomas Smith, Maris Vinovskis, Charles Wetherell, Rudolph Zambardino.

Contents:

Recovering Lost Worlds: The Demographic Dimension in History / Robert I. Rotberg 1

Childrearing among the Lower Classes of Late Medieval England / Barbara A. Hanawalt 23

Economy and English Families, 1500-1850 / Daniel C. Quinlan, Jean A. Shackelford 45

Mexico's Population in the Sixteenth Century: Demographic Anomaly or Mathematical Illusion? / Rudolph A. Zambardino 79

Revising the Conquest of Mexico: Smallpox, Sources, and Populations / Francis J. Brooks 107

Changing Patterns of Slave Families in the British West Indies / Michael Craton 137

Peasant Families and Population Control in Eighteenth-Century Japan / Robert Y. Eng, Thomas C. Smith 173

Urban Household Composition in Early Modern Russia / Daniel H. Kaiser 203

Bastardy and the Socioeconomic Structure of South Germany / W. R. Lee 237

Fertility, Nuptiality, and Occupation: A Study of Coal Mining Populations and Regions in England and Wales in the Mid-Nineteenth Century / Michael R. Haines 261

The Seasonality of Marriage in Old and New England / David Cressy 297

Rhythms of Life: Black and White Seasonality in the Early Chesapeake / Darrett B. Rutman, Charles Wetherell, Anita H. Rutman 319

Fertility Transition in a New England Commercial Center: Nantucket, Massachusetts, 1680-1840 / Edward Byers 345

Socioeconomic Determinants of Interstate Fertility Differentials in the United States in 1850 and 1860 / Maris A. Vinovskis 369.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0262681307

OCLC:

45556210