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Studies in American Historical Demography is a collection of the best studies in American historical demography. The book discusses some methodological and conceptual considerations in the trends in American historical demography; the demographic history of colonial New England; and the marital migration in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the colonial and early federal periods. The text also describes the historical trends in parental power and marriage patterns in Hingham, Massachusetts; the use of demographic data that are, or may be, retrieved from colonial New England gravestones; and the mortality rates and trends in Massachusetts, Massachusetts. The estimates of the vital rates of the United States black population during the 19th century; the two-parent household; as well as the differential fertility in Madison County, New York, 1865 are also considered. The book further tackles the socioeconomic determinants of interstate fertility differentials in the United States in 1850 and 1860; cohorts of native born Massachusetts women, 1830-1920; and the demographic change and the life cycle of American families. Historians, demographers, anthropologists, economists, and sociologists will find the book invaluable.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Studies in American Historical Demography
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Preface
- CHAPTER 1. RECENT TRENDS IN AMERICAN HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY: Some Methodological and Conceptual Considerations
- Chapter 2. The Demographic History of Colonial New England
- Chapter 3. Notes on Life in Plymouth Colony
- Chapter 4. Family Structure in Seventeenth-Century Andover, Massachusetts
- Chapter 5. Families in Colonial Bristol, Rhode Island: An Exercise in Historical Demography
- Chapter 6. Premarital Pregnancy in America 1640-1971: An Overview and Interpretation
- Chapter 7. Marital Migration in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the Colonial and Early Federal Periods
- Chapter 8. Parental Power and Marriage Patterns: An Analysis of Historical Trends in Hingham, Massachusetts
- Chapter 9. Family Size and Fertility Control in Eighteenth-Century America: A Study of Quaker Families
- Chapter 10. Angels' Heads and Weeping Willows: Death in Early America
- Chapter 11. Colonial Gravestones and Demography
- Chapter 12. Mortality Rates and Trends in Massachusetts Before 1860
- Chapter 13. The Virginia Muster of 1624/5 As a Source for Demographic History
- Chapter 14. Of Agues and Fevers: Malaria in the Early Chesapeake
- Chapter 15. The Maryland Slave Population, 1658 to 1730: A Demographic Profile of Blacks in Four Counties
- Chapter 16. NEW ESTIMATES OF THE VITAL RATES OF THE UNITED STATES BLACK POPULATION DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- Chapter 17. THE TWO-PARENT HOUSEHOLD: BLACK FAMILY STRUCTURE IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON
- Chapter 18. Does Human Fertility Adjust to the Environment?
- Chapter 19. Family Limitation and Age at Marriage: Fertility Decline in Sturbridge, Massachusetts 1730–1850
- Chapter 20. Family and Fertility on the Indiana Frontier, 1820
- Chapter 21. DIFFERENTIAL FERTILITY IN MADISON COUNTY, NEW YORK, 1865
- Chapter 22. Socioeconomic Determinants of Interstate Fertility Differentials in the United States in 1850 and 1860
- Chapter 23. MARITAL FERTILITY, ETHNICITY, AND OCCUPATION IN URBAN FAMILIES: AN ANALYSIS OF SOUTH BOSTON AND THE SOUTH END IN 1880
- Chapter 24. A Study of Cohort Life Cycles :Cohorts of Native Born Massachusetts Women, 1830–1920
- Chapter 25. Demographic Change and the Life Cycle of American Families