Demography from scanty evidence : central Africa in the colonial era

In essence a manual for reconstructing the demographic past of Central Africa, this is the first concerted attempt to recover the pre-1960 demography of an African region on the basis of colonial statistics. Contents List of Maps, Figures, and Tables Acknowledgments CENTRAL AFRICA MAP 1 Demography in the Reconstruction of African Colonial History PART 1 SOURCES 2 Some Methodological Reflections 3 Bibliographic Aids for the Historical Demographer 4 The Limits of Colonial Statistics: A Lesson from Algeria 5 First Steps in the Demographic History of Zimbabwe: The Colonial Period from 1895 to 1922 6 Factors Affecting Census Reliability in Colonial Zambia, 1900-1930 7 Recollections of the Annual Population Count in Late Colonial Zambia 8 Demographic Data Resources for Colonial Malawi 9 A Demographic Approach to Colonial Burundi, from Administrative Documents, 1896-1960 10 Catholic Missions, Mentalités, and Quantitative History in Burundi, ca. 1900-1962 PART 2 INNOVATIONS IN METHOD 11 Demographic Estimation from Deficient or Defective Data 12 Perspectives on Census Data for Migration Measurement 13 Maps as Sources in Demographic Studies of Africa's Past, with Particular Reference to Zambia 14 Applications of Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis to Colonial African Census Data 15 The Migration of Women in Colonial Central Africa: Some Notes Toward an Approach 16 Labor Migration and Urban Child Labor During the Colonial Period in Zambia 17 Social Factors in Child Mortality in a Sample of Urban Women 18 Social and Organizational Variables Affecting Central African Demography Comments PART 3 CASE STUDIES 19 Studying the Population of French Equatorial Africa 20 What is Known of the Demographic History of Zaire Since 1885? 21 Population and Worker Mortality in Western Zaire, ca. 1900-1935 22 To Address a Common Problem The Contributors Index About the Book