Asian Population History

ISBN-13: 9780198294436 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 464 str.

Ts'ui-Jung Liu; Ts-Ui-Jung Liu; James -. David Sven Lee -. Reher

Opis

This volume consists of three major sections on fertility, disease and mortality, and marriage and family, which together with five introductory chapters combine depth of analysis with breadth of source material.

Recenzje

The greatest strength of this book lies in the authors' meticulous attempts at unearthing, stylizing, standardizing, and interpreting the mass of historical information on the demographic phenomena in many different Asian countries.

O autorze

Ts'ui-jung Liu is Research Fellow and Director at the Institute of Taiwan History, Preparatory Office, Academia Sinica, Taipei. James Lee is Professor in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology. David Sven Reher is Professor in the School of Political Science and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Osamu Saito is Professor at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. Wang Feng is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine.