Population Reconstruction
This book addresses the problems that are encountered, and solutions that have been proposed, when we aim to identify people and to reconstruct populations under conditions where information is scarce, ambiguous, fuzzy and sometimes erroneous. The process
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tion Reconstruction
Population Reconstruction
Gerrit Bloothooft Peter Christen Kees Mandemakers Marijn Schraagen •
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Editors Gerrit Bloothooft Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands
Kees Mandemakers International Institute of Social History Amsterdam The Netherlands
Peter Christen The Australian National University Canberra, ACT Australia
Marijn Schraagen Leiden University Leiden The Netherlands
ISBN 978-3-319-19883-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-19884-2
ISBN 978-3-319-19884-2
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Preface
People shape societies. They are linked to each other by family ties and networks with social, economic and religious dimensions. People live together in households and form communities. Some own a house, land and other properties, often related to their profession. And all this is in continuous change. People are born, marry, have children and die, and they change houses and addresses, and build careers. For the study of a society in all aspects, people are at the heart of the problem and should be known in the context of their complex relationships. Even today, it is not easy to get this information in an all-enfolding way, but for populations in the past, it is a real challenge. And that is what this book is about. The book addresses the problems that are encountered, and solutions that have been proposed, when we aim to identify people and to reconstruct populations under conditions where information is scarce, ambiguous, fuzzy and sometimes erroneous. It is not a single discipline that is involved in such an endeavour. Historians, social scientists, and linguists represent the humanities through their
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