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AbstractUsing a representative sample of the Hispanic population of the United States based on the manuscripts of the 1910 census, we estimate childhood mortality for the period from approximately 1890...
View ArticleBlowin' Down the Road: Investigating Bilateral Causality Between Dust Storms...
AbstractRecently, the National Academy of Sciences concluded “it is clear thatpopulation and the environment are usually interrelated . . . ”. This paper directlytests the expected interrelationship...
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In this chapter, we describe the role of Latino immigration and settlement in the historical development of the Southwest border region. We confirm aspects of the broad narrative that already exists...
View ArticleProviding Spatial Data for Secondary Analysis: Issues and Current Practices...
AbstractSpatially explicit data pose a series of opportunities and challenges for all the actors involved in providing data for long-term preservation and secondary analysis—the data producer, the data...
View ArticleKatrina in historical context: environment and migration in the U.S.
AbstractThe massive publicity surrounding the exodus of residents from New Orleans spurred by Hurricane Katrina has encouraged interest in the ways that past migration in the U.S. has been shaped by...
View ArticleFinding Frontiers in the U.S. Great Plains from the End of the Civil War to...
AbstractThis chapter uses a new approach to studying patterns of spatial settlement to understand the forces that shaped the movement of the European-origin population into the semi-arid and arid...
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AbstractDemography’s task is to document, analyse and theorize population dynamics, the ways in which spatially-defined populations grow, shrink or redistribute themselves over time. Historical...
View ArticleHousehold and farm transitions in environmental context
AbstractRecent debate in the literature on population, environment, and land use questions the applicability of theory that patterns of farm extensification and intensification correspond to the life...
View ArticleA Sudden Transition: Household Changes for Middle Aged U.S. Women in the...
AbstractBetween 1900 and 1990, the percentage of U.S. white women aged 40–69 living with a child of their own fell from 63 to 27 %, with three-fourths of that change occurring between 1940 and 1960....
View Article25 Historical Demography
AbstractThe study of historical populations has long supported innovative demographic research, beginning with the work of Graunt in the seventeenth century, increasing rapidly in the 1950s, and...
View ArticleChange in U.S. Small Town Community Capitals, 1980–2010
AbstractThe county scale has thus far dominated rural demographic research—this descriptive profile of small town America is unique with its place-based lens. Another important extension is the...
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