Two Cities One Life : : The Demography of Lu-Kang and Nijmegen, 1850-1945 / / Theo Engelen, Hsieh Ying-Hui; ed. by J. de Jong, W. Koetsenruijter.
Historical processes are the result of the behavior of countless individual actors. In this book, therefore, the authors compare the demography of the Taiwanese town Lugang and the Dutch town Nijmegen using data on the lifes of thousands of their inhabitants. The period covered is approximately 1850...
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Life at the Extremes
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Two cities, one life -- 2. East is east and west is west? -- 3. Nuptiality -- 4. Illegitimate births and bridal pregnancy -- 5. Infant mortality -- 6. Fertility -- 7. Conclusion and discussion -- Bibliography |
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Summary: | Historical processes are the result of the behavior of countless individual actors. In this book, therefore, the authors compare the demography of the Taiwanese town Lugang and the Dutch town Nijmegen using data on the lifes of thousands of their inhabitants. The period covered is approximately 1850 to 1945. First, the standard demographic rates on nuptiality, fertility and mortality are calculated to test the Malthusian predictions on a so called ‘positive’ and a ‘preventive’ demographic regime. Next, the authors try to disentangle the individual rationality behind aggregated measures in order to find out how the inhabitants of the two towns used the one life they had. Unaware of each others existence, the people living in Nijmegen and Lu-kang had more in common than one would expect given the huge cultural differences. Two cities, one life is the third volume in the series Life at the Extremes: The Demography of Europe and China, edited by Chuang Ying-chang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Theo Engelen (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands), and Arthur P. Wolf (Stanford University, U.S.A.). |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9789048521012 9783110700671 9783110606515 9783111023786 9783110662788 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9789048521012?locatt=mode:legacy |
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Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Theo Engelen, Hsieh Ying-Hui; ed. by J. de Jong, W. Koetsenruijter. |