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Marriage, Birth, and Inheritance

The Merchants of Eighteenth-Century Buenos Aires

Bibliographic Data

ID2832706
AuthorsSusan Migden Socolow (corresponding author)
Year1980
Volume60
Issue3
Pages387
Publication date1980-08-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2513266
OpenAlexW4231373415, W2320299750
LanguageEN
Citations received20

ECENT demographic studies on colonial Latin America have concentrated on studying populations at the macro or aggregate level. Using census material or other house lists, historians have been successful in describing general patterns of growth or decline, household composition, racial composition, and age structures.' These studies, while valuable in portraying population patterns, cannot generate information on finer questions of historical demography because of the very nature of the data. While a census can help us paint a descriptive picture of a population, it does not tell us about the demographic rates which produced a particular pattern. To determine rates of fertility, birth, and death, we must turn to data which record these specific events-either national registers or, for the colonial period, material collected at the parish level. There have been few published reports of attempts to systematically

Ancient history · Archaeology · Biology · Birth rate · Census · Colonialism · Demographic analysis · Demographic history · Fertility · Gene · Genealogy · Geography · Historical demography · Inheritance (genetic algorithm · Latin Americans · Political science · Population · Population statistics · Research methodology · Sociology · Argentine historical studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Demography · Genetics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law

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Citations per year0.72
Citation span1983 - 2026 (44)
Highly citedNo

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