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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      August 2010
      June 1988
      ISBN:
      9780511523403
      9780521892810
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511523403
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.973kg, 616 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Population History, Area Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time (6)
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Area Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time (6)
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    This book provides a detailed examination of the demographic behavior of families during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a sample of fourteen villages in five different regions of Germany. It is based on the reconstituted family histories of vital events (births, deaths and marriages) compiled by genealogies for the entire populations of these villages. The book applies the type of micro-level analysis possible with family reconstitution data for the crucial period leading to and encompassing the early stages of the demographic transition, including the initial onset of the decline of fertility to low modern levels. The analysis explores many aspects of demographic behavior which have been largely ignored by previous macro-level investigations of the demographic transition. These include infant and child mortality, maternal mortality, marriage, marital dissolution, bridal pregnancy and illegitimacy. The core of the study, however, deals with marital reproduction, examining the modernization of reproductive behavior in terms of the transition from a situation of natural fertility to one characterized by pervasive family limitation.

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