1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779962303321

Titolo

Slavery and other forms of unfree labour / / editor, Leonie J. Archer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1988

ISBN

1-280-32354-X

0-203-40151-4

0-203-33181-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 307 pages) : illustrations

Collana

History workshop series

Altri autori (Persone)

ArcherLeonie J

Disciplina

306.362

306/.362

Soggetti

Slavery

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers from a workshop held in Oxford in April 1985 under the auspices of the History Workshop Centre for Social History.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography: p. [280]-297 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Slavery and Other Forms of Unfree Labour; Serfdom in Classical Greece; Herodotus and the Man-Footed Creature; Greek Theatre and the Legitimation of Slavery; Slavery as a Punishment in Roman Criminal Law; Biblical Laws of Slavery: a Comparative Approach; Debt Bondage in Latin America; Slaves and Peasants in Buganda; Perceptions from an African Slaving Frontier; Sudanese Military Slavery from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century; Mark Twain and the Ideology of Southern Slavery

All Americans Are Part African: Slave Influence on 'White' Values Slave Trading and the Mentalities of Masters and Slaves in Ante-Bellum America; Runaway Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Barbados; Haiti: Race, Slavery and Independence (1804  1825); The Social-Psychological Analysis of Manumission; 'Many Clear Words to Say': Afro-American, Oral and Feminist History; Slavery; its Special Features and Social Role; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Bringing together normally self-contained areas of research, this book presents penetrating analyses of the nature and perpetuation of slavery through the ages.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910483053003321

Autore

Rogers Andrei

Titolo

Applied Multiregional Demography: Migration and Population Redistribution / / by Andrei Rogers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-22318-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (124 p.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Population Studies, , 2211-3215 ; ; 0

Disciplina

301.32

Soggetti

Demography

Population

Emigration and immigration

Population Economics

Migration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Introduction: What is Multiregional Demography? -- 2: Does Model Specification Matter? -- 3: The Proximate Sources of Regional Elderly Population Growth: Mostly Migration or Mostly Aging-In-Place? -- 4: Origin Dependence: Does Birthplace Specificity in Migration Rates Matter? -- 5: The Foreign-Born and the Native-Born: Are Their Elderly Migration and Settlement Patterns Different? -- 6: Multiregional Population Dynamics and Projections: Do Simple Models Outperform Complex Models? -- 7: When Regions Are Status Categories: Does Longer Life Lead to Longer Ill Health? -- 8: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book shows the effectiveness of multiregional demography for studying the spatial dynamics of migration and population redistribution. It examines important questions in demographic analysis and shows how the techniques of multiregional analysis can lead to answers that sometimes contradict conventional wisdom. The book reconsiders conclusions reached in the literature regarding several fundamental common sense demographic questions in migration and population redistribution, including: Are the proximate



sources of urban population growth mostly due to migration or natural increase? Is it mostly migration or “aging-in-place” that has been driving Florida’s elderly population growth? Do the elderly return “home” after retirement more than the non-elderly do? Are the migration and settlement patterns of the foreign-born different from those of the native-born? Do simple population projection models outperform complex ones? Does longer life lead to longer ill-health? For each demographic question it reconsiders, the book illustrates how an inappropriate specification can bias findings to favor a possibly incorrect conclusion. It shows how a multiregional analysis can better illuminate the dynamics that underlie the observed population totals and lead to a more informed conclusion. Offering insights into the effectiveness of multiregional demography, this book serves as a valuable resource for students and researchers searching for a better way to answer questions in demographic analysis and population dynamics.  .