Positive or Preventive? / Yingzhang Zhuang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhuang, Yingzhang, author.

Series:

Life at the extremes, ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Demography--Netherlands.

Demography.

Demography--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2006.

Summary:

This book adresses an important issue in historical demography - the differences between reproduction in low pressure and high pressure demographic regimes. The existence of such differences was first noted in 1789 by Thomas Malthus when he contrasted the low pressure European regimes with the high pressure regimes found in the less civilized parts of the world, most notably China and Japan. This contrast, long taken as fundamental by historical demographers, has recently been challenged by authors who argue that it should be discarded as Malthusian mythology. The papers included here evaluate the received and revisionist views by comparing reproduction in a high pressure regime - Taiwan during the Japanese occupation - and a low pressure regime - the Netherlands in the years 1830-1920. The papers examine the impact of infant mortality, social class, ethnic identity, illegitimacy, form of marriage, and rural vs. urban settings. Reality or mythology?, that is the question.

Contents:

Introduction : Malthusian realities / Theo Engelen & Arthur P. Wolf

Quantifying the colonized : the history and significance of demographic sources from colonial Taiwan / Paul R. Katz & Chiu Cheng-lueh

Sources for the historical demography of the Netherlands in the 19th and early 20th centuries / Jan Kok

Two ethnographies of reproduction / Hill Gates & Marloes Schoonheim

Burden or opportunity? Illegitimate births in the Netherlands and Taiwan / Hill Gates, Jon Kok & Sping Wang

Fertility four ways : Dutch urban and rural and Taiwanese urban and rural / Theo Engelen & Arthur P. Wolf

Group identity and fertility : an evaluation of the role of religion and ethnicity in the Netherlands and Taiwan / John Shepherd [and others]

Fertility and infant and early childhood mortality : some lessons on stopping behavior from Taiwanese and Dutch cases / John R. Shepherd, Jan Kok & Hsieh Ying-hui

Marital feritlity and birth control in rural Netherlands and Taiwan, 19th and early 20th centuries / Jan Kok, Yang Wen-shan & Hsieh Ying-hui

Malthus on China : a brief for the received view / Arthur P. Wolf & Theo Engelen.

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