A Top-down Approach to the Historical Demography of 18th-Century Pomerania
Podejście top-down do demografii historycznej XVIII-wiecznego Pomorza
Author(s): Rolf GehrmannSubject(s): History, Local History / Microhistory, Social history, Modern Age, Demography and human biology, 18th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: Pomerania; 18th century; Prussian statistics; demography; population growth; mode of reproduction; mortality; age at marriage
Summary/Abstract: Taking advantage of relatively well-preserved Prussian statistics, the author examines the dynamics of the Pomeranian population in the 18th century to suggest priorities for further studies at both the individual and local community level. He proposes to take the concept of the mode of reproduction as their common paradigm and also take a functionalist approach, even if detailed research may reveal that it was not external forces, as older theories proclaim, but internal forces of destabilization that finally destroyed the assumed system.
Journal: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
- Issue Year: 44/2022
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 29-59
- Page Count: 31
- Language: English