Three Centuries of Northern Population Censuses

Herausgeber: Thorvaldsen, Gunnar

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Produktbeschreibung

Over the last few decades, researchers in fields such as history, the social sciences and medicine have had improved access to census materials in northern Europe, making information about these infrastructures, some of which are heavily used by genealogists, topical. It was originally published as a special issue of The History of the Family.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781138718289
• ISBN-10: 1138718289
• Artikelnr.: 57044611

Autorenporträt

Gunnar Thorvaldsen is Professor of History and Director of The Norwegian Historical Data Centre, at the University of Tromsø, Norway. His main research interests are historical demography, the history of the census, and longitudinal population register methodology. He currently heads the effort to build a historical population register for Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Three centuries of northern population censuses 1. Residence
patterns of the elderly in early eighteenth-century Iceland 2. Masculine
responsibility across generations: living arrangements in a Norwegian
parish around 1900 3. Mosaic: recovering surviving census records and
reconstructing the familial history of Europe 4. Sweden in 1930 and the
1930 census 5. Polygamy among indigenous people of northern West Siberia in
ethnographic and early census materials 6. Primary sources on the history
of the Soviet family in the twentieth century: an analytical review 7.
Birthplaces, migration and identity in the 2001 census for Ukraine