Full Description
This is the second in a series of monographs on the historic decline of European fertility to be issued by the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. It is a detailed statistical description and analysis of the transition from high to low birth rates which took place in Germany between Unification and the beginning of World War II. It assembles an exceptionally comprehensive amount of evidence that will be of great importance to social historians as well as sociologists and demographers. John E. Knodel relies on modern yet simple methods of measuring the main demographic trends in Germany and uses straightforward methods to test the plausibility of the many hypotheses that have been advanced to explain the great falls in fertility that occurred throughout the western world in the late nineteenth century. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
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Contents
*Frontmatter, pg. i*Foreword, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Contents, pg. xi*List of Tables, pg. xiii*List of Maps and Figures, pg. xix*CHAPTER 1: Introduction, pg. 1*CHAPTER 2: Trends in German Fertility and Nuptiality, pg. 38*CHAPTER 3: Social Differentials in the German Fertility Decline, pg. 88*CHAPTER 4: Demographic Change and Fertility Decline: Infant Mortality, pg. 148*CHAPTER 5: Demographic Change and Fertility Decline: Emigration, Migration, and Urbanization, pg. 188*CHAPTER 6: The Social Context of the German Fertility Decline, pg. 223*CHAPTER 7: Summary of Findings, pg. 246*APPENDIX 1A. The Choice of a Regional Classification for Germany, pg. 263*APPENDIX 1B Comparison of the Demographic Indices with Conventional Measures Based on the German Experience 1800-1925, pg. 266*APPENDIX 2A: Democraphic Indices for Germany - If, Ig, Ih, Im, and Im*, - for Each Administrative Area and for Each Province or State Consisting of More than One Administrative Area, pg. 270*APPENDIX 2B: Notes on Data Adjustments Involved in the Computation of the Basic Demographic Indices in Appendix Table 2.1, pg. 276*APPENDIX 3: Rural-Urban Marital Fertility for Selected German States and Administrative Areas, pg. 279*APPENDIX 4 (Tables 4.1, 4.2, & 4.3), pg. 288*Official Statistical Sources, pg. 292*Other References, pg. 294*Index, pg. 301
