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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Asia: local studies/global themes ; 25
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Asia--local studies/global themes ; 25.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- A note on conventions -- Introduction : contested worldviews and a demographic revolution -- The culture of low fertility, ca. 1660/1950 -- Three cultures of family planning -- Humans, animals, and newborn children -- Infanticide and immortality : the logic of the stem household -- The material and moral economy of infanticide -- The logic of infant selection -- The ghosts of missing children : four approaches to estimating the rate of infanticide -- Redefining reproduction : the long retreat of infanticide, ca. 1790/1950 -- Infanticide and extinction -- "Inferior even to animals" : moral suasion and the boundaries of humanity -- Subsidies and surveillance -- Even a strong castle cannot be defended without soldiers : infanticide and national security -- Infanticide and the geography of civilization -- Epilogue : infanticide in the shadows of the modern state -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. The own-children method and its mortality assumptions -- Appendix 2. Sampling biases, sources of error, and the characteristics of the ten -- Provinces dataset -- Appendix 3. The villages of the ten provinces dataset -- Appendix 4. Total fertility rates in the districts of the ten provinces -- Appendix 5. Infanticide reputations -- Appendix 6. Scrolls and votive tablets with infanticide scenes -- Appendix 7. Childrearing subsidies and pregnancy surveillance by domain -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
This is the story of a society reversing deeply held worldviews and revolutionising its demography. In parts of 18th century Japan, couples raised only two or three children, resulting in shrinking villages and dwindling domain headcounts. In Eastern Japan population growth resumed in the 19th century, with fertility rates approaching six children per woman. This reverse fertility transition suggests that the demographic history of the world is more interesting than paradigms of unidirectional change would have us believe, and that the future of fertility and population growth may yet hold many surprises. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Japan -- Population -- History.
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Japan. |
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Population. |
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History. |
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Fertility, Human -- Japan -- History.
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Fertility, Human. |
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Infanticide -- Japan -- History.
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Infanticide. |
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1600-1868 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Drixler, Fabian Franz, 1978- Mabiki. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013 9780520272439 (DLC) 2012042665 (OCoLC)788263323 |
| ISBN |
9780520953611 (electronic book) |
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0520953614 (electronic book) |
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1299557295 (e-book) |
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9781299557291 (e-book) |
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9780520272439 |
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0520272439 |
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