Demography from Scanty Evidence : : Central Africa in the Colonial Era /

Demography from Scanty Evidence : : Central Africa in the Colonial Era / / ed. by Bruce Fetter.

In essence a manual for reconstructing the demographic past of Central Africa, this is the first concerted attempt to recover the pre-1960 demography of an African region on the basis of colonial statistics.

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MitwirkendeR:
Aborampah, Osei-Mensah,
Beach, David N.,
HerausgeberIn:
Fetter, Bruce ,
Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]
©1990
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • CENTRAL AFRICA MAP
  • 1 Demography in the Reconstruction of African Colonial History
  • PART 1 SOURCES
  • 2 Some Methodological Reflections
  • 3 Bibliographic Aids for the Historical Demographer
  • 4 The Limits of Colonial Statistics: A Lesson from Algeria
  • 5 First Steps in the Demographic History of Zimbabwe: The Colonial Period from 1895 to 1922
  • 6 Factors Affecting Census Reliability in Colonial Zambia, 1900-1930
  • 7 Recollections of the Annual Population Count in Late Colonial Zambia
  • 8 Demographic Data Resources for Colonial Malawi
  • 9 A Demographic Approach to Colonial Burundi, from Administrative Documents, 1896-1960
  • 10 Catholic Missions, Mentalités, and Quantitative History in Burundi, ca. 1900-1962
  • PART 2 INNOVATIONS IN METHOD
  • 11 Demographic Estimation from Deficient or Defective Data
  • 12 Perspectives on Census Data for Migration Measurement
  • 13 Maps as Sources in Demographic Studies of Africa's Past, with Particular Reference to Zambia
  • 14 Applications of Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis to Colonial African Census Data
  • 15 The Migration of Women in Colonial Central Africa: Some Notes Toward an Approach
  • 16 Labor Migration and Urban Child Labor During the Colonial Period in Zambia
  • 17 Social Factors in Child Mortality in a Sample of Urban Women
  • 18 Social and Organizational Variables Affecting Central African Demography
  • Comments
  • PART 3 CASE STUDIES
  • 19 Studying the Population of French Equatorial Africa
  • 20 What is Known of the Demographic History of Zaire Since 1885?
  • 21 Population and Worker Mortality in Western Zaire, ca. 1900-1935
  • 22 To Address a Common Problem
  • The Contributors
  • Index
  • About the Book

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