Historical Studies of Changing Fertility / / Charles Tilly.
The nine papers in this volume examine the historical experience of particular populations in Western Europe and North America in a search for the processes that change fertility patterns. The contributors' findings enable them to reevaluate some of the conflicting hypotheses that have been adv...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1978 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Quantitative Studies in History ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (402 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Series Preface
- Contents
- 1. The Historical Study of Vital Processes
- 2. The Economics and Sociology of Fertility: A Synthesis
- 3. Fertility Strategy for the Individual and the Group
- 4. Models of Preindustrial Dynamics with Applications to England
- 5. Inheritance Systems, Family Structure, and Demographic Patterns in Western Europe, 1700-1900
- 6. A Multivariate Regression Analysis of Fertility Differentials among Massachusetts Townships and Regions in i860
- 7. Alone in Europe: The French Fertility Decline until i85o
- 8. Early Industrialization and Demographic Change in the Canton of Zurich
- 9. Questions and Conclusions
- Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index