Studies in American historical demography / edited by Maris A. Vinovskis
Studies in American historical demography / edited by Maris A. Vinovskis, 1979. 1st edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #387877
ISBN: 012722050X
Physical description; 530 pp.: illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents; Recent trends in American historical demography: some methodological and conceptual considerations / Maris A. Vinovskis -- The demographic history of colonial New England / Daniel Scott Smith -- Notes on life in Plymouth colony / John Demos -- Family structure in seventeenth-century Andover, Massachusetts / Philip J. Greven, Jr. -- Families in colonial Bristol, Rhode Island: an exercise in historical demography / John Demos -- Premarital pregnancy in America, 1640-1971: an overview and interpretation / Daniel Scott Smith and Michael S. Hindus -- Marital migration in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the colonial and early federal periods / Susan L. Norton -- Parental power and marriage patterns: an analysis of historical trends in Hingham, Massachusetts / Daniel Scott Smith -- Family size and fertility control in eighteenth-century America: a study of Quaker families / Robert V. Wells -- Angels' heads and weeping willows: death in early America / Maris A. Vinovskis -- Colonial gravestones and demography / Edwin S. Dethlefsen -- Mortality rates and trends in Massachusetts before 1860 / Maris A. Vinovskis -- The Virginia Muster of 1624/5 as a source for demographic history / Irene Hecht -- Of agues and fevers: malaria in the early Chesapeake / Darrett B. Rutman and Anita H. Rutman -- The Maryland slave population, 1658 to 1730: a demographic profile of blacks in four counties / Russell R. Menard -- New estimates of the vital rates of the United States black population during the nineteenth century / Jack Eblen -- The two-parent household: black family structure in late nineteenth-century Boston / Elizabeth H. Pleck -- Does human fertility adjust to the environment? / Richard Easterlin -- Family limitation and age at marriage: fertility decline in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, 1730-1850 / Nancy Osterud and John Fulton -- Family and fertility on the Indiana frontier, 1820 / John Modell -- Differential fertility in Madison County, New York, 1865 / Wendell H. Bash -- Socioeconomic determinants of interstate fertility differentials in the United States in 1850 and 1860 / Maris A. Vinovskis -- Marital fertility, ethnicity, and occupation in urban families: an analysis of South Boston and South End in 1880 / Tamara K. Hareven and Maris A. Vinovskis -- A study of cohort life cycles: cohorts of native-born Massachusetts women, 1830-1920 / Peter Uhlenberg -- American demographic change and the life cycle of American families / Robert V. Wells. Subjects; Population history United States. Demography.
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