Prudence and Pressure: Reproduction and Human Agency in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900 (The MIT Press Eurasian Population and Family History Series) - Hardcover

Tsuya, Noriko O.; Feng, Wang; Alter, George; Lee, James Z.

 
9780262013529: Prudence and Pressure: Reproduction and Human Agency in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900 (The MIT Press Eurasian Population and Family History Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0262013525 ISBN 13: 9780262013529
Verlag: MIT Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

A study of human reproduction and social organization in preindustrial communities that reveals important similarities between Europe and Asia.

This pioneering study reconceptualizes the impact of social organizations, economic conditions, and human agency on human reproduction in preindustrial communities in Europe and Asia. Unlike previous studies, in which Asia is measured by European standards, Prudence and Pressure develops a Eurasian perspective.

Drawing on rich new data and the tools of event-history analysis, the authors challenge the accepted Eurocentric Malthusian view that attributes “prudence” (smaller families due to late marriage) to the preindustrial West and “pressure” (high mortality due to overpopulation) to the East, showing instead important similarities between Europe and Asia in human motivation and population behavior.

The authors analyze age, gender, family and household, kinship, social class and power, religion, culture, and economic resources in order to compare reproductive strategies and outcomes. They reveal underlying similarities between East and West in two major components of the reproductive regime—marriage and childbearing—and offer evidence showing that preindustrial reproduction was motivated and governed by human agency at least as much as by human biology.

Prudence and Pressure is part of a large-scale interdisciplinary effort to use new data and methods to re-examine the Malthusian paradigm of population growth. It represents a significant advance in the fields of historical demography, history, and sociology.

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Wang Feng is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine.

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Verlag
MIT Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0262013525
ISBN 13 
9780262013529
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
380
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