Author : E. A. Wrigley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 1997-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521590150
This book uses data from 26 Anglican to provide information about fertility, morality and nuptiality in the past.
Author : Dimitri Mortelmans
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 38,71 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 1785364987
Whether considered from an American or a European perspective, the past four decades have seen family life become increasingly complex. Changing Family Dynamics and Demographic Evolution examines the various stages of change through the image of a kaleidoscope, providing new insights into the field of family dynamics and diversity.
Author : Akira Hayami
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,18 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004212930
Doyen of demography studies in Japan at the University of Tokyo, this collection of Akira Hayami’s writings in English brings together for the first time an invaluable resource of comparative primary data on the demographic history of Japan. Containing twenty key essays, the volume is divided into five parts: Tokugawa Japan, Demography through Telescope, Demography through Microscope, Family and Household, Afterwards. It begins with Philip II of Spain and Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the sixteenth century and concludes with Koji Sugi and the emergence of modern population studies in the twentieth century.
Author : Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 14,19 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780262681308
This collection looks at the many dimensions of the study of populations and population movements.
Author : Noriko O. Tsuya
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 22,41 MB
Release : 2010-02-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262013525
Unlike previous studies, in which Asia is measured by European standards, Prudence and Pressure develops a Eurasian perspective.
Author : Warren C. Robinson
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 22,77 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821369520
The striking upsurge in population growth rates in developing countries at the close of World War II gained force during the next decade. From the 1950s to the 1970s, scholars and advocacy groups publicized the trend and drew troubling conclusions about its economic and ecological implications. Private educational and philanthropic organizations, government, and international organizations joined in the struggle to reduce fertility. Three decades later this movement has seen changes beyond anyone's most optimistic dreams, and global demographic stabilization is expected in this century. The Global Family Planning Revolution preserves the remarkable record of this success. Its editors and authors offer more than a historical record. They disccuss important lessons for current and future initiatives of the international community. Some programs succeeded while others initially failed, and the analyses provide valuable guidance for emerging health-related policy objectives and responses to global challenges.
Author : Christer Lundh
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262027941
A study of marriage in preindustrial Europe and Asia that goes beyond the Malthusian East–West dichotomy to find variation within regions and commonality across regions. Since Malthus, an East–West dichotomy has been used to characterize marriage behavior in Asia and Europe. Marriages in Asia were said to be early and universal, in Europe late and non-universal. In Europe, marriages were supposed to be the result of individual choices but, in Asia, decided by families and communities. This book challenges this binary taxonomy of marriage patterns and family systems. Drawing on richer and more nuanced data, the authors compare the interpretations based on aggregate demographic patterns with studies of individual actions in local populations. Doing so, they are able to analyze simultaneously the influence on marriage decisions of individual demographic features, socioeconomic status and composition of the household, and local conditions, and the interactions of these variables. They find differences between East and West but also variation within regions and commonality across regions. The book studies local populations in Sweden, Belgium, Italy, Japan, and China. Rather than a simple comparison of aggregate marriage patterns, it examines marriage outcomes and determinants of local populations in different countries using similar data and methods. The authors first present the results of comparative analyses of first marriage and remarriage and then offer chapters each of which is devoted to the results from a specific country. Similarity in Difference is the third in a prizewinning series on the demographic history of Eurasia, following Life under Pressure (2004) and Prudence and Pressure (2009), both published by the MIT Press.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 1994-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309050855
As the United States and the rest of the world face the unprecedented challenge of aging populations, this volume draws together for the first time state-of-the-art work from the emerging field of the demography of aging. The nine chapters, written by experts from a variety of disciplines, highlight data sources and research approaches, results, and proposed strategies on a topic with major policy implications for labor forces, economic well-being, health care, and the need for social and family supports.
Author : Christopher G. Ellison
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,76 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0813547180
This book is a compilation of population-based research on the relationships of religion to family life and health.
Author : Tommy Bengtsson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,50 MB
Release : 2009-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262512432
A pioneering work in comparative history and social science that compares population behavior in response to adversity in Europe and Asia. This highly original book—the first in a series analyzing historical population behavior in Europe and Asia—pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using techniques of event history analysis, the authors examine 100,000 life histories in 100 rural communities in Western Europe and Asia to analyze the demographic response to social and economic pressures. In doing so they challenge the accepted Eurocentric Malthusian view of population processes and demonstrate that population behavior has not been as uniform as previously thought—that it has often been determined by human agency, particularly social structure and cultural practice. The authors examine the complex relationship between human behavior and social and economic environment, analyzing age, gender, family, kinship, social class and social organization, climate, food prices, and real wages to compare mortality responses to adversity. Their research at the individual, household, and community levels challenges the previously accepted characterizations of social and economic behavior in Europe and Asia in the past. The originality of the analysis as well as the geographic breadth and historical depth of the data make Life Under Pressure a significant advance in the field of historical demography. Its findings will be of interest to scholars in economics, environmental studies, demography, history, and sociology as well as the general reader interested in these subjects.
