Historical Demography as Social History: Possibilities in Germany

Imhof, Arthur E.

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“…The data are in the form of reconstituted histories of the vital events experienced by individual couples and thus provide information on the dates of birth, marriage, and death of the couple as well as their children (see also Imhof, 1977).…”

Section: Sources Settings and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preferences for the Sex of Offspring and Demographic Behavior in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Germany: an Examination of Evidence From Village Genealogies

Knodel

Vos

1980

Journal of Family History

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Section: Sources Settings and Methodsmentioning

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Preferences for the Sex of Offspring and Demographic Behavior in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Germany: an Examination of Evidence From Village Genealogies

Knodel

Vos

1980

Journal of Family History

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“…The contradictory findings of the methods, and the incompleteness of explanations derived by both, suggest that family history should be moving in new directions as well, such as examining the connections between family and other institutions. We may never have the "whole" picture; what is needed now is thoughtful "applied" family history, which can illuminate the way family links affect people's participation in the public sphere, and in turn, the way public sphere change impinges on family (on this, see Field, 1981;Litchfield, 1979;Imhof, 1977;Ross and Rapp, 1981).…”

Section: New Directions For Family Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

Does the Family Have a History?

Tilly

Cohen

1982

Social Science History

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Whence and whither family history? In his bibliographic and programmatic essay, Hobsbawm (1971) did not mention family history as a subfield of what was then the relatively “new” social history. The closest he came was “demography and kinship.” In 1980, by which time social history was definitely mature, and according to some critics, even in decline, the proceedings of a conference on history in the 1980s included a 37-page essay by Stone (1981b; see also Stone, 1981a, 1978) on family history. Several bellwethers of the change may be noted in passing. One year after the 1968 conference for which Hobsbawm's comments were originally prepared, the Cambridge Group for the History of Population held a meeting whose subject—the comparative history of householdand family—went beyond strictly demographic history. In 1972, a family history newsletter was launched by Professor Tamara Hareven, in cooperation with the Newberry Library in Chicago; a special issue of theJournal of Interdisciplinary Historyon “The History of the Family” appeared in 1971; a special issue ofAnnales: Economies, Societes et Civilisationsdevoted to “Famille et Societé”was published in 1972. By the time theJournal of Family History, edited by Hareven, began publication in 1976, two more special issues on family history of theJournal of Interdisciplinary Historywere required reading for those calling themselves social historians.

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“…from parish registers kept in the respective communities, as far back as the 16th, 17th, 18th centuries, were collected by a team of twelve, who transferred the information to preprinted forms, coded them and fed them via teleprint into the computer (for a detailed methodological description, cf. Imhof, 1977b).…”

Section: Establishing a Databankmentioning

confidence: 99%