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 representatives of the West-European and Chinese mortality regimes. Are these cases as different as the low and high pressure contrast implies?
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Height
240 mm
Length
170 mm
Weight
744 gr
Series & Set Details
Series Name
Life at the Extremes
Book Details
Imprint
Aksant Academic Publishers
Publication Year
2011
Contributors
Author Info
Wen-Shan Yang is a researcher at the Institute of Sociology and the convenor of the program for historical demography at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan.Melody Chia-Wen Lu is research fellow and coordinator at the International Institute for Asian Studies in the Netherlands.
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