Navigating Time and Space in Population Studies

Navigating Time and Space in Population Studies presents innovative approaches to the diffusion of population and demographic behaviour. New data is paired with explicit analytical methods to evaluate core demographic theories, while posing new questions about a variety of other aspects involved.

Navigating Time and Space in Population Studies presents innovative approaches to long-standing questions about the diffusion of population and demographic behavior across space and over time. This collection utilizes newly-available historical data along with spatially and temporally explicit analytical methods to evaluate and refine core demographic theories and to pose new questions about mortality and fertility transitions, migration, urbanization, and social inequality. It adds a spatial dimension to the analysis of temporal processes and a temporal element to spatial processes. Chapters cover a broad range of geographical settings, including the United States, Europe, Latin America, and the Islamic world, and span time periods from the eighteenth to twentieth century. Contributors from a variety of disciplines reveal the complexity of factors involved in population processes that spread across space and unfold over time, and demonstrate a rich set of tools with which to explore, analyze, and test the spatial and temporal dynamics of these phenomena. The theories, methods, and substantive findings presented here provide new lenses through which to view time and space in population studies, offering useful models and valuable insights to demographers and other social scientists exploring both historical and contemporary questions about population dynamics anywhere in the world.

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Chapter 1: An Innovative Methodology for Space-Time Analysis with an Application to the 1960-2000 Brazilian Mortality Transition: Carl P. Schmertmann, Joseph E. Potter, and Renato M. Assunção.- Chapter 2: Spatial Aspects of the American Fertility Transition in the Nineteenth Century: Michael R. Haines and J. David Hacker.- Chapter 3: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Fertility Transition in Muslim Populations: Hani A. Guend.- Chapter 4: Spatial and Temporal Analyses of Surname Distributions to Estimate Mobility and Changes in Historical Demography: The Example of Savoy (France) from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century: Pierre Darlu, Guy Brunet, and Dominique Barbero.- Chapter 5: Widening Horizons? The Geography of the Marriage Market in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth Century Netherlands: Peter Ekamper, Frans van Poppel, and Kees Mandemakers.- Chapter 6: Finding Frontiers in the U.S. Great Plains from the End of the Civil War to the Eve of the Great Depression: Myron P. Gutmann, Glenn D. Deane, and Kristine Witkowski.- Chapter 7: Commonalities and Contrasts in the Development of Major United States Urban Areas: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis from 1910 to 2000: Andrew A. Beveridge.- Chapter 8: Economic Transition and Social Inequality in Early Twentieth Century Puerto Rico: Katherine J. Curtis.- Index.