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Dictionary of the Social Sciences

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2002
Subject:
Social sciences
Length:
102 words

The study of human populations in terms of size, growth, movement, composition, and other variables. Demographic analysis became a possibility ...

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2011
Subject:
Archaeology, History
Length:
1,767 words

For periods in antiquity, where societies are similar and where similar methods of construction and traditions of habitation exist, a ...

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The Oxford Companion to Medicine (3 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Medicine and health
Length:
2,908 words

‘It is an obvious truth that population must always be kept down to the level of the means of subsistence’: ...

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The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2009
Subject:
Art & Architecture, Religion
Length:
745 words

No detailed demographic study of medieval Islamic societies is now possible, nor will it ever be. Even gross population figures ...

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Encyclopedia of Evolution

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Science and technology, Life Sciences, Social sciences, Anthropology
Length:
1,508 words
Illustration(s):
2

Demography is the study of populations and the processes that shape them. Demographic concepts and techniques are important in evolutionary ...

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World Encyclopedia

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Encyclopedias
Length:
43 words

Term introduced (1855) by Achille Guillard for the scientific study of human populations and their changes, movements, size, ...

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The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2007
Subject:
Science and technology, Medicine and health
Length:
23 words

The scientific study of populations, their age-structure, migrations, mortality rate, occupations, and other factors affecting the quality of life within the populations....

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Gwen Robbins and Marloes Schoonheim

The Oxford Encyclopedia Women in World History

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2008
Subject:
History
Length:
5,269 words
This entry consists of two subentries:Overview Comparative History ...Overview Demography is the study of population statistics, their relationship to social systems ... More
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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
1,576 words

Demography was at first “the statistical study of human communities” (Robert), aiming to enumerate the people in a ...

Demography.

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Daniel Scott Smith

The Oxford Companion to United States History

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
Length:
1,704 words
Demography examines the sources and consequences of population increases or decreases. ... This, in turn, involves assessing the rates of birth, death, and geographic ... More
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2009
Subject:
Archaeology, History
Length:
8 words

[Ge] ...

The study of populations. See palaeodemography.

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Andrew J. Cappel

The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
1,006 words
In broad terms, historical demography addresses two interrelated issues: the absolute size of population in a city or region and the composition and natural growth (or decline) of such ... More

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