ISBN:
9780127570204
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (526 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Sources and Methods of Historical Demography : Studies in Social Discontinuity
DDC:
304.6/09
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Sources and Methods of Historical Demography covers the fundamental sources, methods, and approaches to explanatory modeling for describing, analyzing, and understanding demographic features of past societies. The book discusses the intellectual ancestry of historical demographic research, beginning in the 17th century; as well as the logic of basic techniques for reconstructing and analyzing information from fundamental source materials. The text also describes the full range of disciplines that have made major contributions to historical demography, and examples of empirical research. The bo
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Sources and Methods of Historical Demography; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PART I: INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1. A Genealogy of Historical Demography; THE METHODOLOGISTS; POLITICAL ARITHMETIC; THE THEORISTS; REFERENCES; PART II: FUNDAMENTAL SOURCE MATERIALS; Chapter2. Sources of Prehistoric Demography; CENSUSING PREHISTORIC POPULATIONS FROM MATERIAL REMAINS; THE STUDY OF PREHISTORIC VITAL RATES: PALEODEMOGRAPHY; MORTALITY PATTERNS AMONG PREHISTORIC POPULATIONS; POPULATION GROWTH IN PREHISTORY; ETHNOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE OF POPULATION CONTROL IN PREHISTORY
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REFERENCESChapter3. Parish Registers and Civil Registration Records; THE DEVELOPMENT OF PARISH REGISTERS; THE CONTENTS OF PARISH REGISTER RECORDS ON INDIVIDUALS; HISTORICAL CONDITIONS AFFECTING THE QUALITY OF PARISH REGISTER INFORMATION; ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF SMALL SETS OF VITAL REGISTRATION RECORDS; ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF LARGE SETS OF VITAL EVENT RECORDS; ESTIMATING AND CORRECTING FOR THE UNDERREGISTRATION OF VITAL EVENTS; VITAL REGISTRATION RECORDS AND HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY; REFERENCES; Chapter4. Enumerations and Censuses; ENUMERATIONS IN THE PAST
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HEARTHS AND HOUSEHOLDS IN EARLY ENUMERATIONSTHE USE OF ""ONE-TIME"" ENUMERATIONS; AN EXAMPLE OF A REGULAR SERIES OF EARLY ENUMERATION DATA: THE STATI D'ANIME; ASSESSING THE ACCURACY OF ENUMERATION DATA; THE QUALITY OF REGULAR SERIES OF MODERN CENSUSES; THE DEFINITION AND BOUNDARIES OF CENSUS UNITS; RELATIONSHIPS AMONG INDIVIDUALS WITHIN HOUSEHOLDS; OCCUPATIONAL DATA FROM CENSUS RECORDS AND THE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL STRUCTURE; CENSUS DATA AND THE STUDY OF FERTILITY; REFERENCES; Chapter5. Genealogies and Population Registers; TYPES OF GENEALOGIES; SOME GENERAL PROBLEMS OF GENEALOGICAL SOURCES
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ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF GENEALOGICAL SOURCESDEALING WITH PARTIAL OR INCOMPLETE DATA ON INDIVIDUALS; THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE DEMOGRAPHIC EXPERIENCE OF GENEALOGICAL POPULATIONS; POPULATION REGISTERS; REFERENCES; Chapter6. Organizational and Institutional Records; MARRIAGE CONTRACTS; WILLS; THE HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY OF INSTITUTIONAL POPULATIONS; REFERENCES; PART III: METHODS OF POPULATION RECONSTRUCTION AND ANALYSIS OF HISTORICAL SOURCES; Chapter7. Record Linkage and the Study of Historical Communities as Relational Systems; IMPORTANT CONCEPTS FOR THE SYSTEMS THEORIST
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REGULATION IN HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHIC SYSTEMSNETWORK ANALYSIS; REFERENCES; Chapter8. Family Reconstitution and Household Structure Analysis; THE LOGIC OF AUTOMATIC FAMILY RECONSTITUTION; CALCULATING DEMOGRAPHIC RATES FROM FAMILY RECONSTITUTION DATA; THE STRUCTURE OF CORESIDENT DOMESTIC GROUPS; DYNAMIC STUDIES OF HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE AND FAMILY LIFE CYCLES; REFERENCES; Chapter9. Sampling in Historical Research; SIMPLE RANDOM, SYSTEMATIC, AND CLUSTER SAMPLING; STRATIFIED AND MULTISTAGE SAMPLING; SAMPLE SIZE; REFERENCES; REFERENCES; Chapter10. Lexis Diagrams and Formal Demographic Indexes
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LEXIS DIAGRAMS
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