2005
Populations
Book reviews
History of populations and history of demographic knowledge
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Le Roy Ladurie Emmanuel, Histoire humaine et comparée du climat, Canicules et glaciers XIIIe-XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Fayard, 2004, vol. 1, 740 p.
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Reviewed by Éric Brian
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Biller Peter, The Measure of multitude. Population in Medieval Thought, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000 (hard cover) and 2003 (paperback).
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Reviewed by Éric Brian
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Stanton William, The Rapid Growth of Human Populations 1750-2000. Histories, Consequences, Issues. Nation by Nation, Brentwood (UK), Multi-Science Publishing Company Ltd, 2003.
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Reviewed by Éric Brian
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P. M. G. Harris, The History of Human Populations, Westport (USA) and London (GB), Praeger, vol. 1, Forms of Growth and Decline, 2001; vol. 2, Migration, Urbanization and Structural Change,
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Reviewed by Éric Brian
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Prum Michel (ed.), Sang impur. Autour de la “race” (Grande-Bretagne, Canada, États-Unis), Paris, collection “Racisme et eugénisme” l’Harmattan, 2004, 238 p.
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Reviewed by Marie Jaisson
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Simar Théophile, Étude critique sur la formation de la doctrine des races au XVIIIe siècle et son expansion au XIXe siècle, Geneva, Slatkine Reprints, 2003, 403 p.
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Reviewed by Marie Jaisson
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Preston Samuel H., Ilo Irma T., Hill Mark E. et al., The Demography of African Americans: 1930-1990. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, VIII-214 p., (Plenum Series On Demographic Methods And Population Analysis).
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Reviewed by Paul Schor
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Kertzer David I., Barbagli Marzio (ed), The History of the European Family. Family Life in Early Modern Times: 1500-1789, Yale University Press, New Haven and London,
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Reviewed by Cristina Munno
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Kertzer David I., Barbagli Marzio (ed), The History of the European Family. Family Life in the Long Nineteenth Century: 1789-1913, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2001.
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Reviewed by Cristina Munno
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Kertzer David I., Barbagli Marzio (ed), The History of the European Family. Family Life in the Twentieth Century, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2003.
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Reviewed by Cristina Munno
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Goody Jack, 2004, L’islam en Europe: histoire, échanges, conflits, Paris, éditions La découverte, 177 p.
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Reviewed by Kamel Kateb
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Bengtsson Tommy, Campbell Cameron, Lee James Z. et al. Life under Pressure. Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900, Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press. 2004, p. 531
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Reviewed by Cristina Munno
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Neven Muriel (2003), Individus et familles: Les dynamiques d’une société rurale. Le pays de Herve dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l’Université de Liège, Liège.
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Reviewed by Lionel Kesztenbaum
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Cribier Françoise, Feller Élise, (ed.), Regards croisés sur la protection sociale de la vieillesse, Paris, Cahier d’histoire de la Sécurité Sociale, nËš 1, 2005, 358 p.
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Reviewed by Jean-Noël Biraben
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Ottaway Susannah, The Decline of Life. Old Age in Eighteenth-Century England, Cambridge University Press, 2004, Cambridge.
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Reviewed by Lionel Kesztenbaum
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Boltanski Luc, La condition fœtale. Une sociologie de l’engendrement et de l’avortement, NRF Essais, Gallimard, 2004.
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Reviewed by Fabrice Cahen
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Femmes Familles Filiations. Societé et histoire. Etudes réunies par Marcel Bernos et Michèle Bitton en Hommage à Yvonne Knibiehler, Publication de l’Université de provence, 2004.
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Reviewed by Cristina Munno
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Les Femmes dans l’histoire du CNRS, édité par la Mission pour la place des femmes au CNRS sous la responsabilité scientifique du Comité pour l’histoire du CNRS, Paris, CNRS éditions, 2004, 156 p.
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Reviewed by Marie Jaisson
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eggerickx Thierry, La dynamique démographique et la transition de la fécondité dans le bassin industriel de la Région de Charleroi de 1831 à 1910, préface de Guillaume Wunsch, 1re série (XIXe siècle), tome III, volume 1. Histoire quantitative et développement de la Belgique aux XIXe et XXe siècles, Académie royale de Belgique, Bruxelles 2004, 561 pages.
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Reviewed by Jacques Véron
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Population-French Edition (
Population-F) publishes a section of book reviews under the supervision of Kamel
Kateb, which is not as yet translated into English. Issue No. 5-6, 2005 includes a thematic selection of reviews on the “History of populations and history of demographic knowledge” coordinated by F.
Cahen, L.
Kesztenbaum, C.
Munno.