Navigating Time And Space In Population Studies (international Studies In Population)

This book presents innovative approaches to long-standing questions about the diffusion of population and demographic behavior across space and over time, adding a spatial dimension to temporal analysis and a temporal element to spatial analysis. The studies collected here utilize newly-available historical data along with spatially and temporally explicit analytical methods to assess and refine core demographic theories and to pose new questions about mortality and fertility transitions, migration, urbanization, and social inequality. Covering a broad range of geographical settings and spanning time periods from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the book reveals the complexity of factors involved in population processes as they simultaneously spread across space and unfold over time. It also presents a rich set of tools with which to explore, analyze, and test the spatial and temporal dynamics of these phenomena. Navigating Time and Space in Population Studies presents innovative approaches to long-standing questions about the diffusion of population and demographic behavior across space and over time. This collection utilizes newly-available historical data along with spatially and temporally explicit analytical methods to evaluate and refine core demographic theories and to pose new questions about mortality and fertility transitions, migration, urbanization, and social inequality. It adds a spatial dimension to the analysis of temporal processes and a temporal element to spatial processes. Chapters cover a broad range of geographical settings, including the United States, Europe, Latin America, and the Islamic world, and span time periods from the eighteenth to twentieth century. Contributors from a variety of disciplines reveal the complexity of factors involved in population processes that spread across space and unfold over time, and demonstrate a rich set of tools with which to explore, analyze, and test the spatial and temporal dynamics of these phenomena. The theories, methods, and substantive findings presented here provide new lenses through which to view time and space in population studies, offering useful models and valuable insights to demographers and other social scientists exploring both historical and contemporary questions about population dynamics anywhere in the world. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-17 An Innovative Methodology for Space-Time Analysis with an Application to the 1960–2000 Brazilian Mortality Transition....Pages 19-36 Spatial Aspects of the American Fertility Transition in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 37-63 Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Fertility Transition in Muslim Populations....Pages 65-97 Spatial and Temporal Analyses of Surname Distributions to Estimate Mobility and Changes in Historical Demography: The Example of Savoy (France) from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century....Pages 99-113 Widening Horizons? The Geography of the Marriage Market in Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Netherlands....Pages 115-160 Finding Frontiers in the U.S. Great Plains from the End of the Civil War to the Eve of the Great Depression....Pages 161-183 Commonalities and Contrasts in the Development of Major United States Urban Areas: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis from 1910 to 2000....Pages 185-216 Economic Transition and Social Inequality in Early Twentieth Century Puerto Rico....Pages 217-240 Back Matter....Pages 241-245