Antoinette Fauve Chamoux Livres

At the XXIst World Congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS/CISH) in 2010 in Amsterdam, the International Commission for Historical Demography (ICHD) decided to write an overview of its own history. Fifty years had gone by since the CISH XIst World Congress in Stockholm 1960, when historians took the first tentative initiatives to create a wholly new interdisciplinary commission for historical demography, a meeting place for a budding discipline where researchers in letters and science could meet, exchange ideas, cultivate and develop a new field. This book is the outcome of that decision. Demography, past, present and future is a common concern for all inhabitants of this planet. The variation is great, however, with regard to sources, social and political conditions, state of the art, technological development, national and local initiatives. In the course of half a century many changes take place. Keeping abreast of the gigantic streams of information and innovation in the field is demanding, even more so for a discipline with global dimensions and ambitions. The book makes fascinating reading, and preparing it has been a rewarding and thought provoking experience. The thirty-seven articles in the book represent as many different stories.

Is the Asian stem family different from its European counterpart? This question is central to a collection of essays by two historians examining the family from a Eurasian perspective. Characterized by the rule that only one married child remains with the parents, the stem family significantly influences household structure, functioning as a domestic unit of production and reproduction that persists across generations and perpetuates non-egalitarian inheritance. Despite its ambiguous classification in family typology, the stem family was a prominent form in pre-industrial Western Europe, drawing attention from family historians like Frédéric Le Play and Peter Laslett. Recent encounters with Asian family history have revealed that many Asian regions also exhibit a significant presence of stem-family structures. This has propelled the stem family debate into a new phase. The essays include studies utilizing large databases for micro-level analyses of family systems, alongside broader discussions on the evolution of family structures over time. A key focus is whether family types are determined by ethno-cultural factors or shaped by socio-economic conditions. By incorporating Asian contexts, this work enriches the global discourse on the stem family and family systems.