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

List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction: 1. Family reconstitution and the historical study of demographic behaviour; 2. The source and the sample; Part II. Mortality: 3. Infant and child mortality: levels, trends and seasonality; 4. Infant and mortality: socio-economic and demographic differentials; 5. Maternal mortality; Part III. Family Formation: 6. Marriage; 7. Marital dissolution and remarriage; 8. Illegitimacy; 9. Bridal pregnancy and prenuptial births; Part IV. Marital Reproduction: 10. Trends in marital fertility and underlying natural fertility components; 11. From natural fertility to family limitation; 12. Starting, stopping, spacing and the fertility transition; Part V. Interrelationships in Demographic Behaviour: 13. Family size, fertility and nuptiality interrelationships; 14. Child mortality and reproductive behaviour; Part VI. Conclusion: 15. Population dynamics of the past: summing up; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.