A History of Italian Fertility During the Last Two Centuries / Massimo Livi Bacci.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Livi Bacci, Massimo, author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Office of Population Research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fertility, Human--Italy--History.

Fertility, Human.

Italy--Population--History.

Italy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Profound changes have occurred in the demography and sociology of Italian fertility since Napoleonic times. Using the statistical system instituted in 1861 with national unification, Massimo Livi-Bacci provides a systematic and detailed analysis of fertility trends in Italy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He brings to light the main features of the secular decline: its rapid occurrence in the northern and central areas; the widening urban-rural gap; the shaping of social and economic differences; and the late, slow downward trend in the South. Multivariate statistical analysis enables the author to measure the changing relationship between fertility and social or economic phenomena. Historical evidence illustrates the effect on fertility of mass emigration and Fascist policy as well as of social changes such as those in agrarian structure, mobility, and communications. An altered attitude toward procreation is evident in some parts of Italy in the early nineteenth century. The decline becomes apparent in certain northern and central regions in the 1870s and 1880s and it appears at the aggregate national level in the 1890s.Originally published in 1977.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Preface

Contents

List of Tables

List of Maps and Figures

Introduction

CHAPTER 1: From Napoleonic Times to National Unification

CHAPTER 2: Regional Development of Fertility since Unification: 1861-1971

CHAPTER 3: Urban-Rural Residence and the Decline in Fertility

CHAPTER 4: The Geography of Fertility and Nuptiality Changes

CHAPTER 5: Factors Involved in Italy's Fertility Decline

CHAPTER 6: Differential Fertility as a Key to the Interpretation of Fertility Decline

CHAPTER 7: Some Fertility Determinants: Biological Factors, Family Structure, and Selected Characteristics of Italian Society

Conclusion

Appendix A

Appendix Β

Appendix C

Official Statistical Sources

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780691633596

0691633592

9780691604466

0691604460

9781400870127

1400870127

OCLC:

933516413