Demography
Historical
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7077409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Etienne Van De Walle (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosd027 |
| OpenAlex | W4231336425 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
The history of population has long been of interest to historians and demographers. Historical writings were used to estimate the population of the Roman Empire, of China, and of the world over time. Local historians used monthly numbers of burials and baptisms in parish records to ascertain the effect of epidemics or food crises. Starting in the mid‐1950s, the work of the French demographer Louis Henry is generally credited for initiating a new discipline, historical demography, based this time not only on the careful accounting of vital events at the aggregate level, but also on the nominal linking of records. This became an essential tool of historians, and the appellation “historical demography” is often reserved for that auxiliary branch of history that deals with the quantitative aspects of past populations, whereas “demographic history” deals with more substantive aspects
Ancient history · Archaeology · Biography · China · Demographic analysis · Demographic history · Empire · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Historical demography · Historical record · Political history · Political science · Politics · Population · Quantitative history · Research methodology · Sociology · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |