Population history and the family : a Journal of interdisciplinary history reader / edited by Robert I. Rotberg.

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2001], ©2001.

390 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Journal of interdisciplinary history.

Essays first published in the Journal of interdisciplinary history.

Recovering lost worlds: the demographic dimension in history / Robert I. Rotberg -- Childbearing among the lower classes of late Medieval England / Barbara A. Hanawalt -- Economy and English families, 1500-1850 / Daniel C. Quinlan and Jean A. Shackelford -- Mexico's population in the sixteenth century: demographic anomaly or mathematical illusion? / Rudolph A. Zambardino -- Revising the conquest of Mexico: smallpox, sources, and populations / Francis J. Brooks -- Changing patterns of slave families in the British West Indies / Michael Craton -- Peasant families and population control in eighteenth-century Japan / Robert Y. Eng and Thomas C. Smith -- Urban household composition in early modern Russia / Daniel H. Kaiser -- Bastardy and the socioeconomic structure of south Germany / W.R. Lee -- Fertility, nuptiality, and occupation: a study of coal mining populations and regions in England and Wales in the mid-nineteenth century / Michael R. Haines -- The seasonality of marriage in old and new England / David Cressy -- Rhythms of life: black and white seasonality in the early Chesapeake / Darrett B. Rutman, Charles Wetherell, and Anita H. Rutman -- Fertility transition in a New England commercial center: Nantucket, Massachusetts, 1680-1840 / Edward Byers -- Socioeconomic determinants of interstate fertility differentials in the United States in 1850 and 1860 / Maris A. Vinovskis.

Includes bibliographical references.