Demographic Behavior in the Past: A Study of Fourteen German Village Populations in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

by John E. Knodel

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521892813
• ISBN13: 9780521892810
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 2.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"