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STUDIES IN POPULATION, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
Contributors, Page ix
Preface, Page xi
RECENT TRENDS IN AMERICAN HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY: Some Methodological and Conceptual Considerations, Pages 1-25, Maris A. Vinovskis
The Demographic History of Colonial New England, Pages 27-45
Notes on Life in Plymouth Colony, Pages 47-69, John Demos
Family Structure in Seventeenth-Century Andover, Massachusetts, Pages 71-93, Philip J. Greven Jr.
Families in Colonial Bristol, Rhode Island: An Exercise in Historical Demography, Pages 95-112, John Demos
Premarital Pregnancy in America 1640–1971: An Overview and Interpretation, Pages 113-146, Daniel Scott Smith, Michael S. Hindus
Marital Migration in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the Colonial and Early Federal Periods, Pages 147-159, SUSAN L. NORTON
Parental Power and Marriage Patterns: An Analysis of Historical Trends in Hingham, Massachusetts, Pages 161-170, DANIEL SCOTT SMITH
Family Size and Fertility Control in Eighteenth-Century America: A Study of Quaker Families, Pages 171-180, ROBERT V. WELLS
Angels\' Heads and Weeping Willows: Death in Early America, Pages 181-210, MARIS A. VINOVSKIS
Colonial Gravestones and Demography, Pages 211-223, EDWIN S. DETHLEFSEN
Mortality Rates and Trends in Massachusetts Before 1860, Pages 225-254, Maris A. Vinovskis
The Virginia Muster of 1624/5 As a Source for Demographic History, Pages 255-282, Irene W.D. Hecht
Of Agues and Fevers: Malaria in the Early Chesapeake, Pages 283-312, Darrett B. Rutman, Anita H. Rutman
The Maryland Slave Population, 1658 to 1730: A Demographic Profile of Blacks in Four Counties, Pages 313-338, Russell R. Menard
NEW ESTIMATES OF THE VITAL RATES OF THE UNITED STATES BLACK POPULATION DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, Pages 339-357, Jack Ericson Eblen
THE TWO-PARENT HOUSEHOLD: BLACK FAMILY STRUCTURE IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON, Pages 359-387, ELIZABETH H. PLECK
Does Human Fertility Adjust to the Environment?, Pages 389-397, RICHARD A. EASTERLIN
Family Limitation and Age at Marriage: Fertility Decline in Sturbridge, Massachusetts 1730–1850, Pages 399-412, NANCY OSTERUD, JOHN FULTON
Family and Fertility on the Indiana Frontier, 1820, Pages 413-432, JOHN MODELL
DIFFERENTIAL FERTILITY IN MADISON COUNTY, NEW YORK, 1865, Pages 433-458, WENDELL H. BASH
Socioeconomic Determinants of Interstate Fertility Differentials, Pages 459-480, Maris A. Vinovskis
MARITAL FERTILITY, ETHNICITY, AND OCCUPATION IN URBAN FAMILIES: AN ANALYSIS OF SOUTH BOSTON AND THE SOUTH END IN 1880, Pages 481-505, Tamara K. Hareven, Maris A. Vinovskis
A Study of Cohort Life Cycles: Cohorts of Native Born Massachusetts Women, 1830-1920, Pages 507-520, PETER R. UHLENBERG
Demographic Change and the Life Cycle of American Families, Pages 521-530, Robert V. Wells