Death at the opposite ends of the Eurasian continent Mortality trends in Taiwan and the Netherlands

• Autres auteurs: Shepherd, John R. (Éditeur intellectuel), Engelen, Theo (Éditeur intellectuel), Yang Wen-Shan (Éditeur intellectuel)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Amsterdam University Press 2011
• Collection: Life at the Extremes 4
• Sujets: Sociology & anthropology; Population & demography; sociology; sociologie
• Accès en ligne: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Historical demographers since Malthus have characterized the West-European and Chinese demographic regimes as systems under low and high pressure, respectively. This volume examines the operation of the positive check at the two ends of the Eurasian continent by taking the Netherlands and Taiwan as...