Positive or Preventive? Reproduction in Taiwan and the Netherlands, 1850-1940

• 1. autor: Ying-chang, Chuang (auth)
• Kolejni autorzy: Engelen, Theo (auth), Wolf, Arthur P. (auth)
• Format: Elektroniczne Rozdział
• Język: angielski
• Wydane: Aksant Academic Publishers 2006
• Seria: Life at the Extremes: The Demography of Europe and China 2
• Hasła przedmiotowe: History; geschiedenis; history; geography; auxiliary disciplines; Birth control; Catholic Church; China; Fertility; Hoklo people; Legitimacy (family law); Netherlands; Taiwan
• Dostęp online: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This book adresses an important issue in historical demography - the differences between reproduction in low pressure and high pressure demographic regimes. The existence of such differences was first noted in 1789 by Thomas Malthus when he contrasted the low pressure European regimes with the high...