Asian Population History [Hardcover]

This volume consists of three major sections on fertility, disease and mortality, and marriage and family, which together with five introductory chapters combine depth of analysis with breadth of source material.

Part 1. Overview
1. What do we Know about Asian Population History? Comparisons of Asian and European Research,John C. Caldwell
2. Understanding the Nature and Importance of Low-growth Demographic Regimes,Chris Wilson
3. Southeast Asian Population History and the Colonial Impact,Anthony Reid
4. The Population History of South Asia from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century: An Exploration,Sumit Guha
5. Demographic Trends in Ludhiana District, Punjab, 1881-1981: An Exploration of Vital Registration Data in Colonial India,Tim Dyson and Monica Das Gupta
Part II. Fertility
6. Patterns of Nuptiality and Fertility in a Fishing Village in Southwestern Tokugawa Japan,Noriko O. Tsuya
7. The Level of Fertility in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan,c.1801-1930: A Preliminary Analysis of Hutterite Indices,Ken'ichi Tomobe
8. Indonesian Fertility Behaviour before the Transition: Searching for Hints in the Historical Record,Terence H. Hull
9. Trends and Fluctuations in Fertility in Sri Lanka during the First Half of the Twentieth Century,C. M. Langford
Part III. Disease and Mortality
10. Crisis Mortality in 17th Century Indonesia,Peter Boomgaard
11. Mortality Change and the Epidemiological Transition in Beijing, 1644-1990,Cameron Campbell
12. Disease and Mortality in the History of Taiwan,Ts'ui-jung Liu and Shi-yung Liu
13. Smallpox and the Pattern of Mortality in Late 19th Century Taiwan,John R. Shepherd
14. Public Health and the Diffusion of Vaccination in Japan,Ann Bowman Jannetta
15. The Attenuation of Mortality Fluctuations in Britishl#