Finding Frontiers in the U.S. Great Plains from the End of the Civil War to the Eve of the Great Depression

Abstract

Eight papers, originally presented at the Workshop on Time and Space held at the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota in October 2006, explore innovative methods in historical demography. Papers discuss an innovative methodology for space-time analysis with an application to the 1960-2000 Brazilian mortality transition; spatial aspects of the American fertility transition in the nineteenth century; spatial and temporal patterns of fertility transition in Muslim populations; spatial and temporal analyses of surname distributions to estimate mobility and changes in historical demography; the geography of the marriage market in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Netherlands; finding frontiers in the U.S. Great Plains from the end of the Civil War to the eve of the Great Depression; commonalities and contrasts in the development of major urban areas in the United States--a spatial and temporal analysis from 1910 to 2000; and economic transition and social inequality in early-twentieth-century Puerto Rico. Contributors include economists. Gutmann, Merchant, and Sylvester are with the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan. Deane is with the Department of Sociology at the University of Albany, State University of New York. Index.