A Global History of Historical Demography
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A Global History of Historical Demography

Half a Century of Interdisciplinarity

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  1. 684 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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A Global History of Historical Demography

Half a Century of Interdisciplinarity

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About this book

At the XXIst World Congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS/CISH) in 2010 in Amsterdam, the International Commission for Historical Demography (ICHD) decided to write an overview of its own history. Fifty years had gone by since the CISH XIst World Congress in Stockholm 1960, when historians took the first tentative initiatives to create a wholly new interdisciplinary commission for historical demography, a meeting place for a budding discipline where researchers in letters and science could meet, exchange ideas, cultivate and develop a new field. This book is the outcome of that decision.

Demography, past, present and future is a common concern for all inhabitants of this planet. The variation is great, however, with regard to sources, social and political conditions, state of the art, technological development, national and local initiatives. In the course of half a century many changes take place. Keeping abreast of the gigantic streams of information and innovation in the field is demanding, even more so for a discipline with global dimensions and ambitions. The book makes fascinating reading, and preparing it has been a rewarding and thought provoking experience. The thirty-seven articles in the book represent as many different stories.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Foreword
  3. International Editorial Board
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. List of Figures and Tables
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Introduction: A Global History of Historical Demography. Time for an Anthology (Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux, Ioan Bolovan and SĂžlvi Sogner)
  9. 1. Historical Demography and International Network Developments (1928–2010) (Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux)
  10. 2. Historical Demography on Sub-Saharan Africa (1975-2010) (Dennis D. Cordell, Elizabeth Omoluabi and Nancy Stiegler)
  11. 3. Historical Demography in Argentina (HernĂĄn Otero)
  12. 4. Sources for an Australian Interdisciplinary Historical Demography (Rebecca Kippen and David Lucas)
  13. 5. A Short History of Historical Demography in Austria. From a Population Issue to Special Scientific Discipline (Peter Teibenbacher and Gudrun Exner)
  14. 6. Historical Demography in the Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) (Dalia Leinarte, Andrejs Plakans and Toivo U. Raun)
  15. 7. A History of Historical Demography in Belgium (Isabelle Devos and Christa Matthys)
  16. 8. Historical Demography in Canada (BĂ©atrice Craig)
  17. 9. The Development of Chinese Historical Demography Since 1950 (Zhongwei Zhao)
  18. 10. Historical Demography in the Czech Republic (Ludmila Fialova and Eduard Maur)
  19. 11. Historical Demography in Denmark (Hans Chr. Johansen)
  20. 12. A History of the Historical Demography of England and Wales (Peter Kitson)
  21. 13. Historical Demography in Finland 1960–2010 (Beatrice Moring)
  22. 14. The French School of Historical Demography (1950.2000): Strengths and Weaknesses (Isabelle SĂ©guy)
  23. 15. Historical Demography in Germany (Rolf Gehrmann)
  24. 16. Historical Demography of Greek Populations (Violetta Hionidou)
  25. 17. Historical Demography in Hungary: A History of Research (TamĂĄs FaragĂł)
  26. 18. Historical Demography in Iceland, 1970–2011 (Ólöf GarĂ°arsdĂłttir)
  27. 19. Indian Historical Demography (Ravindran Gopinath)
  28. 20. History of Historical Demography in Ireland (Christopher M. Kennedy)
  29. 21. A History of Historical Demography in Italy (Lucia Pozzi and Eugenio Sonnino)
  30. 22. Historical Demography in Japan: Achievements and Problems (Akira Hayami)
  31. 23. Family Demography in Traditional ChosƏn Korea: Survival Strategies of Families (Kuentae Kim)
  32. 24. Historical Demography in Latin America: An Assessment (Maria Luiza Marcilio)
  33. 25. Mexican Historical Demography (Agustin Grajales Porras)
  34. 26. Historical Demography in the Netherlands (Theo Engelen and Ad van der Woude)
  35. 27. Historical Demography in Norway 1960-2010 (SĂžlvi Sogner)
  36. 28. Polish Historical Demography. Past, Present, Future (Cezary Kuklo)
  37. 29. Historical Demography in Portugal (1950-2012) (Maria Norberta Amorim and Paulo Teodoro de Matos)
  38. 30. Half a Century of Historical Demography in Romania (1960-2010) (Ioan Bolovan)
  39. 31. Historical Demographia in Russia (Irina Troitskaia and Alexandre Avdeev)
  40. 32. Population History in Scotland: Opportunities Under-explored (Michael Anderson)
  41. 33. Historical Demography in Slovakia in the Last Fifty Years (Pavol TiĆĄliar and JĂĄn Golian)
  42. 34. Historical Demography in Spain (1960-2011) (Ofelia Rey Castelao)
  43. 35. Historical Demography in Sweden and its International Visibility (Lars-Göran Tedebrand)
  44. 36. From Statistics and Political Economy to Historical Demography. Two and a Half Centuries of Population Research in Switzerland (Anne-Lise Head-König)
  45. 37. Historical Demography in United States (Emily R. Merchant and J. David Hacker)
  46. Index