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Historical Demography in the Early Modern Period

Historical Demography in the Early Modern Period. God send mee the use of things, and notions, whose foundations are sense and the superstructure mathematicall reasoning, for wont of which props so many governments doe reel and stagger, and crush the honest subjects that live under them .

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Historical Demography in the Early Modern Period

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  1. Historical Demography in the Early Modern Period God send mee the use of things, and notions, whose foundations are sense and the superstructure mathematicall reasoning, for wont of which props so many governments doe reel and stagger, and crush the honest subjects that live under them. William Petty, The Petty Papers, Some Unpublished Writings of Sir William Petty, ed. Marquis of Lansdowne, 2 vols. (London: Constable, 1927), vol I, p. 111.

  2. Political Arithmetic • John Graunt and the London Bills of Mortality • William Petty – surveys and life tables • Gregory King and Charles Davenant – population estimates and the use of the multiplier

  3. The Early Modern Household and Family • Peter Laslett, The World We Have Lost (1965); Laslett and Richard Wall, Household and Family in Past Time (1972) • Household Listings (pre-modern censuses) can reveal: • Household size • Nature of families • Differences according to status, etc.

  4. Class Exercise – The Listing of Trent, Dorset • What is the average household size in the section of the census that you have? • What methodological choices did you make to determine that number? • What is the predominant style of family? • Nuclear (parents and children) • Extended (more than one generation plus nuclear) • Complex (containing more than just a single nuclear family) • Stem (the oldest son takes over the household from the parents, but they continue to live there)

  5. Conclusions from Listings • Early modern households were small and nuclear on average • Neolocalism • Northwest European Marriage Pattern • Household and family may be considered one, for many practical purposes

  6. Images drawn from Andrea Rusnock, Vital Accounts, Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). • E.A. Wrigley and R.S. Schofield, The Population History of England 1541-1871, A Reconstruction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981)

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