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Demography from Scanty Evidence : Central Africa in the Colonial Era / ed. by Bruce Fetter.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]Copyright date: ©1990Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781555871994
  • 9781685851521
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.6/0967 20/eng/20231120
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps, Figures, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- CENTRAL AFRICA MAP -- 1 Demography in the Reconstruction of African Colonial History -- PART 1 SOURCES -- 2 Some Methodological Reflections -- 3 Bibliographic Aids for the Historical Demographer -- 4 The Limits of Colonial Statistics: A Lesson from Algeria -- 5 First Steps in the Demographic History of Zimbabwe: The Colonial Period from 1895 to 1922 -- 6 Factors Affecting Census Reliability in Colonial Zambia, 1900-1930 -- 7 Recollections of the Annual Population Count in Late Colonial Zambia -- 8 Demographic Data Resources for Colonial Malawi -- 9 A Demographic Approach to Colonial Burundi, from Administrative Documents, 1896-1960 -- 10 Catholic Missions, Mentalités, and Quantitative History in Burundi, ca. 1900-1962 -- PART 2 INNOVATIONS IN METHOD -- 11 Demographic Estimation from Deficient or Defective Data -- 12 Perspectives on Census Data for Migration Measurement -- 13 Maps as Sources in Demographic Studies of Africa's Past, with Particular Reference to Zambia -- 14 Applications of Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis to Colonial African Census Data -- 15 The Migration of Women in Colonial Central Africa: Some Notes Toward an Approach -- 16 Labor Migration and Urban Child Labor During the Colonial Period in Zambia -- 17 Social Factors in Child Mortality in a Sample of Urban Women -- 18 Social and Organizational Variables Affecting Central African Demography -- Comments -- PART 3 CASE STUDIES -- 19 Studying the Population of French Equatorial Africa -- 20 What is Known of the Demographic History of Zaire Since 1885? -- 21 Population and Worker Mortality in Western Zaire, ca. 1900-1935 -- 22 To Address a Common Problem -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book
Summary: In essence a manual for reconstructing the demographic past of Central Africa, this is the first concerted attempt to recover the pre-1960 demography of an African region on the basis of colonial statistics.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps, Figures, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- CENTRAL AFRICA MAP -- 1 Demography in the Reconstruction of African Colonial History -- PART 1 SOURCES -- 2 Some Methodological Reflections -- 3 Bibliographic Aids for the Historical Demographer -- 4 The Limits of Colonial Statistics: A Lesson from Algeria -- 5 First Steps in the Demographic History of Zimbabwe: The Colonial Period from 1895 to 1922 -- 6 Factors Affecting Census Reliability in Colonial Zambia, 1900-1930 -- 7 Recollections of the Annual Population Count in Late Colonial Zambia -- 8 Demographic Data Resources for Colonial Malawi -- 9 A Demographic Approach to Colonial Burundi, from Administrative Documents, 1896-1960 -- 10 Catholic Missions, Mentalités, and Quantitative History in Burundi, ca. 1900-1962 -- PART 2 INNOVATIONS IN METHOD -- 11 Demographic Estimation from Deficient or Defective Data -- 12 Perspectives on Census Data for Migration Measurement -- 13 Maps as Sources in Demographic Studies of Africa's Past, with Particular Reference to Zambia -- 14 Applications of Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis to Colonial African Census Data -- 15 The Migration of Women in Colonial Central Africa: Some Notes Toward an Approach -- 16 Labor Migration and Urban Child Labor During the Colonial Period in Zambia -- 17 Social Factors in Child Mortality in a Sample of Urban Women -- 18 Social and Organizational Variables Affecting Central African Demography -- Comments -- PART 3 CASE STUDIES -- 19 Studying the Population of French Equatorial Africa -- 20 What is Known of the Demographic History of Zaire Since 1885? -- 21 Population and Worker Mortality in Western Zaire, ca. 1900-1935 -- 22 To Address a Common Problem -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book

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In essence a manual for reconstructing the demographic past of Central Africa, this is the first concerted attempt to recover the pre-1960 demography of an African region on the basis of colonial statistics.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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