Georg Fertig
Biographic Data
| ID | 5659520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Georg Fertig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Georg |
| FAMILY NAME | Fertig |
| SIGNATURE | FERTIG G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Münster |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3581-8094 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Das französische Ancien Régime als Eigentümergesellschaft?
Bernard Derouet was a highly specialized researcher who regularly published articles about rural French society in Europe’s most renowned social and economy history journal, the Annales ESC / Annales HSS . This translation of five selected articles allows German scholars in the fields of social and economic history to continue working directly with intellectual sources from French research.
Französische Ancien Régime Als Eigentümergesellschaft
From Malthusian Disequilibrium to the Post-Malthusian Era: The Evolution of the Preventive and Positive Checks in Germany, 1730–1870
This study draws on a new data set of vital rates and real wages to explore short-term and long-term behavior of the preventive and positive checks in a major economy of premodern mainland Europe. Four results stand out. First, the preventive check was fairly stable throughout the period 1730–1870; its magnitude of 0.2 to 0.35 was comparable with that of England, northern and central Italy, and Sweden. Second, the eighteenth century was character…
Beyond the Niche Hypothesis. Property, Marriage, and the Onset of Familial Reproduction in Rural Northwest Germany, 1820–1866
The study applies event history analysis to nominative data of three contrasting localities to explore the relationship between property transmission and family formation. This allows testing several hypotheses concerning demographic regulation and family dynamics in preindustrial Europe, including but not limited to the niche hypothesis. The analysis finds evidence for four mechanisms of family formation. Firstly, the death of one or both parent…
Das postmalthusianische Zeitalter: Die Bevölkerungsentwicklung in Deutschland, 1815–1871
The study constructs new data series for population and vital rates in the German states between 1815 and 1871 and aggregates these to the national level. Major improvements in the data at state level include a broadening of the source material, the determination of population size in years between censuses on the basis of recorded natural increase, and a correction for improvement of population coverage across the censuses taken between the late…
Social Networks, Political Institutions, and Rural Societies
This book is a collection of essays on social networks, social capital, and kinship in historical and contemporary rural societies. They span a wide range of European countries and historical situations, from early modern Flanders and Italy to present-day Austria and Armenia. All the essays describe in detail how people on the countryside connected with one another in formal or informal relations. In doing so, the authors use and critically discu…
Social Networks, Political Institutions and Rural Societies
Zwischen Xenophobie und Freundschaftspreis: Landmarkt und familiäre Beziehungen in Westfalen, 1830-1866
Article Zwischen Xenophobie und Freundschaftspreis: Landmarkt und familiäre Beziehungen in Westfalen, 1830-1866 was published on June 1, 2005 in the journal Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook (volume 46, issue 1)
Inheritance, succession, and familial transfer in rural Westphalia, 1800–1900
This article compares property transfer contracts between generations in two Prussian parishes where marital law differed significantly in the 19th century. Our sources focus on two critical phases in peasants' life cycles at the time. Whereas young people could find the resources to settle down, the older generation had to plan for their retirement. Although sons had a better chance of inheriting the farm, female successors were not rare. A peas…
The invisible chain: Niche inheritance and unequal social reproduction in preindustrial continental Europe
A central aspect of the demographic transition model is discussed: the “chain between inheritance and reproduction,” which many historical demographers claim has kept population and resources in balance during the preindustrial period. The basic mechanism is well known: Economic space is thought to be divided into a limited number of self-sufficient positions or niches; since marriage required possession—usually by inheritance—of one such niche, …
Lokales Leben, atlantische Welt: Die Entscheidung zur Auswanderung vom Rhein nach Nordamerika im 18. Jahrhundert
Lokales Leben, atlantische Welt: Die Entscheidung zur Auswanderung vom Rhein nach Nordamerika im 18. Jahrhundert (Local Life, Atlantic World: The Decision for Emigration from the Rhine to North Americ…
Journal Article Lokales Leben, atlantische Welt: Die Entscheidung zur Auswanderung vom Rhein nach Nordamerika im 18. Jahrhundert (Local life, Atlantic world: The decision for emigration from the Rhine to North America in the eighteenth century). By Georg Fertig. (Osnabrück: Universitätsverlag Rasch, 2000. 466 pp. Paper, DM 56, ISBN 3-932147-17-0.) In German Get access Marianne S. Wokeck Marianne S. Wokeck Indiana University—Purdue University Indi…
Balancing, networking and the causes of emigration: Early German transatlantic migration in a local perspective, 1700–1754
Since the early 1980s, the eighteenth-century beginnings of German mass migration to North America have been the subject of intense research and writing. In spite of the multifaceted results of this research on both sides of the ocean, the textbook explanation of early German Atlantic migration has demonstrated a striking persistence. To quote from one of the best English-language textbooks on German social history, ‘from about 1750 on, over-popu…
Transatlantic Migration from the German-Speaking Parts of Central Europe, 1600–1800: Proportions, Structures, and Explanations
In 1732, the financial chamber of government in Baden-Durlach was bewildered by an application for emigration to North America. Their indignation was far from exceptional. Seventeen years later, the pastor of Lichtenau, an Upper Rhenish town, recorded the emigration of five families to Pennsylvania. This chapter first addresses the question of scale: how many men and women did actually emigrate from the Rhinelands to British North America, and ho…
The invisible chain: Niche inheritance and unequal social reproduction in preindustrial continental Europe
A central aspect of the demographic transition model is discussed: the “chain between inheritance and reproduction,” which many historical demographers claim has kept population and resources in balance during the preindustrial period. The basic mechanism is well known: Economic space is thought to be divided into a limited number of self-sufficient positions or niches; since marriage required possession—usually by inheritance—of one such niche, …
Balancing, networking and the causes of emigration: Early German transatlantic migration in a local perspective, 1700–1754
Since the early 1980s, the eighteenth-century beginnings of German mass migration to North America have been the subject of intense research and writing. In spite of the multifaceted results of this research on both sides of the ocean, the textbook explanation of early German Atlantic migration has demonstrated a striking persistence. To quote from one of the best English-language textbooks on German social history, ‘from about 1750 on, over-popu…
From Malthusian Disequilibrium to the Post-Malthusian Era: The Evolution of the Preventive and Positive Checks in Germany, 1730–1870
This study draws on a new data set of vital rates and real wages to explore short-term and long-term behavior of the preventive and positive checks in a major economy of premodern mainland Europe. Four results stand out. First, the preventive check was fairly stable throughout the period 1730–1870; its magnitude of 0.2 to 0.35 was comparable with that of England, northern and central Italy, and Sweden. Second, the eighteenth century was character…
Das postmalthusianische Zeitalter: Die Bevölkerungsentwicklung in Deutschland, 1815–1871
The study constructs new data series for population and vital rates in the German states between 1815 and 1871 and aggregates these to the national level. Major improvements in the data at state level include a broadening of the source material, the determination of population size in years between censuses on the basis of recorded natural increase, and a correction for improvement of population coverage across the censuses taken between the late…
Inheritance, succession, and familial transfer in rural Westphalia, 1800–1900
This article compares property transfer contracts between generations in two Prussian parishes where marital law differed significantly in the 19th century. Our sources focus on two critical phases in peasants' life cycles at the time. Whereas young people could find the resources to settle down, the older generation had to plan for their retirement. Although sons had a better chance of inheriting the farm, female successors were not rare. A peas…
Lokales Leben, atlantische Welt: Die Entscheidung zur Auswanderung vom Rhein nach Nordamerika im 18. Jahrhundert
Transatlantic Migration from the German-Speaking Parts of Central Europe, 1600–1800: Proportions, Structures, and Explanations
In 1732, the financial chamber of government in Baden-Durlach was bewildered by an application for emigration to North America. Their indignation was far from exceptional. Seventeen years later, the pastor of Lichtenau, an Upper Rhenish town, recorded the emigration of five families to Pennsylvania. This chapter first addresses the question of scale: how many men and women did actually emigrate from the Rhinelands to British North America, and ho…
Balancing, networking and the causes of emigration: Early German transatlantic migration in a local perspective, 1700–1754
Since the early 1980s, the eighteenth-century beginnings of German mass migration to North America have been the subject of intense research and writing. In spite of the multifaceted results of this research on both sides of the ocean, the textbook explanation of early German Atlantic migration has demonstrated a striking persistence. To quote from one of the best English-language textbooks on German social history, ‘from about 1750 on, over-popu…
Lokales Leben, atlantische Welt: Die Entscheidung zur Auswanderung vom Rhein nach Nordamerika im 18. Jahrhundert (Local Life, Atlantic World: The Decision for Emigration from the Rhine to North Americ…
Journal Article Lokales Leben, atlantische Welt: Die Entscheidung zur Auswanderung vom Rhein nach Nordamerika im 18. Jahrhundert (Local life, Atlantic world: The decision for emigration from the Rhine to North America in the eighteenth century). By Georg Fertig. (Osnabrück: Universitätsverlag Rasch, 2000. 466 pp. Paper, DM 56, ISBN 3-932147-17-0.) In German Get access Marianne S. Wokeck Marianne S. Wokeck Indiana University—Purdue University Indi…
Lokales Leben, atlantische Welt: Die Entscheidung zur Auswanderung vom Rhein nach Nordamerika im 18. Jahrhundert
The invisible chain: Niche inheritance and unequal social reproduction in preindustrial continental Europe
A central aspect of the demographic transition model is discussed: the “chain between inheritance and reproduction,” which many historical demographers claim has kept population and resources in balance during the preindustrial period. The basic mechanism is well known: Economic space is thought to be divided into a limited number of self-sufficient positions or niches; since marriage required possession—usually by inheritance—of one such niche, …
Zwischen Xenophobie und Freundschaftspreis: Landmarkt und familiäre Beziehungen in Westfalen, 1830-1866
Article Zwischen Xenophobie und Freundschaftspreis: Landmarkt und familiäre Beziehungen in Westfalen, 1830-1866 was published on June 1, 2005 in the journal Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook (volume 46, issue 1)
Inheritance, succession, and familial transfer in rural Westphalia, 1800–1900
This article compares property transfer contracts between generations in two Prussian parishes where marital law differed significantly in the 19th century. Our sources focus on two critical phases in peasants' life cycles at the time. Whereas young people could find the resources to settle down, the older generation had to plan for their retirement. Although sons had a better chance of inheriting the farm, female successors were not rare. A peas…
Social Networks, Political Institutions, and Rural Societies
This book is a collection of essays on social networks, social capital, and kinship in historical and contemporary rural societies. They span a wide range of European countries and historical situations, from early modern Flanders and Italy to present-day Austria and Armenia. All the essays describe in detail how people on the countryside connected with one another in formal or informal relations. In doing so, the authors use and critically discu…
Social Networks, Political Institutions and Rural Societies
Das postmalthusianische Zeitalter: Die Bevölkerungsentwicklung in Deutschland, 1815–1871
The study constructs new data series for population and vital rates in the German states between 1815 and 1871 and aggregates these to the national level. Major improvements in the data at state level include a broadening of the source material, the determination of population size in years between censuses on the basis of recorded natural increase, and a correction for improvement of population coverage across the censuses taken between the late…
Beyond the Niche Hypothesis. Property, Marriage, and the Onset of Familial Reproduction in Rural Northwest Germany, 1820–1866
The study applies event history analysis to nominative data of three contrasting localities to explore the relationship between property transmission and family formation. This allows testing several hypotheses concerning demographic regulation and family dynamics in preindustrial Europe, including but not limited to the niche hypothesis. The analysis finds evidence for four mechanisms of family formation. Firstly, the death of one or both parent…
From Malthusian Disequilibrium to the Post-Malthusian Era: The Evolution of the Preventive and Positive Checks in Germany, 1730–1870
This study draws on a new data set of vital rates and real wages to explore short-term and long-term behavior of the preventive and positive checks in a major economy of premodern mainland Europe. Four results stand out. First, the preventive check was fairly stable throughout the period 1730–1870; its magnitude of 0.2 to 0.35 was comparable with that of England, northern and central Italy, and Sweden. Second, the eighteenth century was character…
Französische Ancien Régime Als Eigentümergesellschaft
Das französische Ancien Régime als Eigentümergesellschaft?
Bernard Derouet was a highly specialized researcher who regularly published articles about rural French society in Europe’s most renowned social and economy history journal, the Annales ESC / Annales HSS . This translation of five selected articles allows German scholars in the fields of social and economic history to continue working directly with intellectual sources from French research.
Political science (8 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Emigration (4 works)