Historical demography is an inter-scientific discipline that studies demographic processes and phenomena in their historical development.
Content
Research Areas
In historical demography, three main areas of research are conditionally distinguished:
- studies of the dynamics of the population size , composition and density , as well as migration and resettlement
- historical analysis of these processes and their social premises;
- the study of the role of demographic factors in the historical process and the historical conditionality of demographic processes.
Periodization
In historical demography, there are three periods depending on the sources - preliterate, pre- statistical , statistical .
Studies of the preliterate period are the subject of paleodemography using data from paleoanthropology , archeology and ethnography .
The scarcity and fragmentation of the demographic sources of the pre-statistical period, as well as the need to use indirect research, led to the development of special methods.
The most studied are sources on the West European demographic history of the XVI-XVIII centuries.
Literature
- Kivimäe S. K., Pullat R. N. First All-Union Seminar on Historical Demography in Tallinn // History of the USSR, 1975, No. 3.
- Problems of historical demography of the USSR. Tallinn, 1977.
- The number and class composition of the population of Russia and the USSR (XVI — XX centuries). Tallinn, 1979.
- Problems of historical demography of the USSR. Tomsk, 1980.
- Shelestov D.K. Soviet historical demography at the present stage // History of the USSR, 1982, No. 4.
- Vodarsky Y. E. Historical demography as a scientific discipline // Problems of historical demography of the USSR (period of socialism). - Chisinau: Shtiintsa, 1985 .-- 147 p.
- Shelestov D.K. Historical demography: A textbook for universities in the specialty "History". - M .: Higher School , 1987. - 288 p. - 9000 copies. (in per.)
- Gorskaya N. A. Historical demography of Russia in the era of feudalism: (Results and problems of study) / Ed. ed. Y. E. Vodarsky ; Reviewers: N. F. Demidova , A. A. Preobrazhensky ; Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences . - M .: Nauka , 1994 .-- 224 p. - 870 copies. - ISBN 5-02-009750-0 . (in per.)
- In foreign languages
- Willigan J.-D., Lynch K.-A. Sources and Methods of Historical Demography. - N.-Y .: Academic Press, 1982.
- Stangl G. Antike Populationen in Zahlen. Überprüfungsmöglichkeiten von demographischen Zahlenangaben in antiken Texten. - F.-am-M .: Peter Lang, 2008.