Population and Economic Change in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Europe: Prussian Upper Silesia, 1840–1913
1976; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 36; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0022050700081717
ISSN1471-6372
Autores Tópico(s)Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
ResumoThis article deals with a largely Polish speaking region of eastern Prussia which was transformed from a rural, agrarian area in the mid-nineteenth century to a modern mixed agricultural and heavy industrial economy by 1913. This region moved from a condition of high ana fluctuating mortality and fertility prior to the 1860's to a situation with declining mortality and eventually declining fertility after the 1860's. Consideration of detailed patterns of mortality (by age, sex, atid cause of death) and of fertility (by Kreise ) helps relate economic factors to these demographic trends and differentials.
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