...Donald D. Brand The Central Desert of Baja California: Demography and Ecology . By Aschmann Homer . Berkeley-Los Angeles , 1959 . University of California Press . Ibero-Americana: No. 42 . Maps. Table. Chart. Illustrations. Bibliography . Pp. x , 315 . Paper. $5.00...

...George Kubler The Historical Demography and Ecology of the Teotlalpan . By Cook Sherburne F. . [ Ibero-Americana: 33 .] ( Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1949 . Pp. 59 . Paper .) Soil Erosion and Population in Central Mexico . By Cook Sherburne...

... American countries because Chile boasts the largest series of census data on population movements. Copyright 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Historical Statistics of Chile: Demography and Labor Force . Vol. 2 . Compiled by Mamalakis Markos J. . Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press...

...Ann F. Ramenofsky Disease and Demography in the Americas . Edited by Vebano John W. and Ubelaker Douglas H. . Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press , 1992 . Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Graphs. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index, x, 294 pp. Cloth . $62.00...

... rigorous than heretofore generally believed; for example, Disease and Demography in the Americas , edited by John W. Verano and Douglas H. Ubelaker (1992). In addition, his coverage of ecological studies that bear on demographic phenomena is weak, excluding works by scholars like Arij Ouweneel and Elinor...

... . Copyright 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 The second volume of the Cook and Borah Essays in Population History , like the first, is a collection of essays in technical demography. Eight important studies are included in this volume, and all relate to regions and periods in the population history...

... of treatment, and medical institutions in California and Mexico. A Guggenheim fellowship and sabbatical leave, spent in Mexico in 1939, led to a lifelong friendship with Robert Weitlaner and explorations in the Mixteca Alta and the Valley of El Mezquital. In 1940 the first essay in historical demography...

... Brazil but all the way back to the rst peopling of the Americas. As with their other work, this is a data-heavy volume with dozens of graphs and tables throughout with a strong emphasis on demography. This should hardly be surprising for two scholars who have been practitioners of quantitative, social...

... several doctoral students, some of whom he brought from Peru. He further cemented his academic stature, and that of our department, through a series of additional monographs on historical demography, ethnohistory, and social and cultural history. Besides being a towering, productive scholar...

... at the University of Iowa. She is the author of the forthcoming book entitled Within the Boundaries of Equality: Citizenship, Race, and Nation. Bolivia, 1880-1953 . massimo livi-bacci is Professor of Demography at the University of Florence, and Honorary President of the International Union...

... schemes of periodization. Three others deal with demography, reflecting the disconcerting impact of “L’École Berkeley’s” research on central Mexico in the ‘60s. Two more discuss the “function of the family” and “family size” in colonial Latin America. Mellafe was one of the pioneers of the history...

... of the Timucua people. Hann discusses such topics as Timucua relations with the Spanish and with neighboring tribes, and Timucua demography, subsistence, warfare, language, religion, dance, games, and other aspects of culture. Hann is silent, however, about Indian autonomy, the domestic lives of the mission...

... of accents (e.g., Yautepéc, seménteras) . More serious, however, is Haskett’s cursory treatment of demography, especially when this is the only cause of historical change mentioned in the book. Merely repeating that the Indian population declined in the sixteenth century, stagnated in the seventeenth...

... equipment used to adapt to these resources: such as ceramic, lithic equipment, bones, etc.. . . In the fourth and final chapter, we are presented with an interpretation of the material and some hypotheses with respect to settlement patterns, demography, subsistance activities (pastoralism and agriculture...

... the 1970s, Acosta has profited from his study of historical demography with Jacques Dupâquier and Carlos Alvarez Santaló. Indeed, Acosta is given credit by his mentor and major professor, Francisco Morales Padrón, as being the first member of the Departamento de Historia de América at the Universidad de...

... summarizes the impact on Cuban demography of the huge influx of African slaves. He argues that Cuba’s demography was shaped by its economic structure, and shows how the slave population developed distinct demographic characteristics in the sugar-producing areas of the island. There, slaves constituted...

... to curry viceregal favor. The annotations frequently cite works from Burrus’s considerable body of publications. With the exception of Homer Aschmann’s The Central Desert of Baja California: Demography and Ecology (Berkeley, 1959), other sources used in the annotations are largely uncritical...

...) and in Spanish America (1964) and later volumes on historical demography and the social history of Chile and America. But Mellafe’s real intellectual interest lay in the original, provocative, and often hortative article. His bibliography includes 63 such pieces, which take up such diverse themes...

... begreifen,” p. 18). The outcome is a book which largely adopts a standard historical organization. Surveys covering Indian society during the Incas, the “early” and “late” colonial periods (with special chapters on the hacienda and demography), and the national period respectively, form the first half...

... Fluminense in Niterói, Brazil. He received his Ph.D. in History from Stanford University in 1976, with a dissertation on “The Demography and Economics of Brazilian Slavery: 1850-1888.” His research since then, expanding on his dissertation, has focused on slavery in two counties in Rio de Janeiro and São...