HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY I

Co-lecturer:  I. Athanassopoulou

The course is based on the presentation of the following main aspects of inquires on issues of historical demography for the period from Antiquity to the 19th century.

The course aims at the theoretical approach and analysis of the main aspects of inquires on issues of historical demography for the period from Antiquity to the 19th century.

Week #1:
Introduction to Historical Demography, Object, Methods and Historical Approach
Developing practical skills on the problems of Historical Demography through analysis of historical texts

Week #2:
The Historical Demography of the Premodern Period
Developing practical skills on the problems of Historical Demography through analysis of historical texts

Week #3:
Historic Demography during the modern period
Developing practical skills on the problems of Historical Demography through analysis of historical texts

Week #4:
The main demographic parameters from 1650 to 1850, the demographic explosion of the 18th century
Developing practical skills on the problems of Historical Demography through analysis of historical texts

Week #5:
The Birth-rate and the Fertility during the Modern Period
Developing practical skills on the problems of Historical Demography through analysis of historical texts

Week #6:
The Marriage in the Modern Period
Developing practical skills on the problems of Historical Demography through analysis of historical texts

Week #7:
The Mortality in the modern period
Developing practical skills on the problems of Historical Demography through analysis of historical texts

Week #8:
Demographic crises during the modern period
Developing practical skills on the problems of Historical Demography through analysis of historical texts

Week #9:
Movements of populations
Developing practical skills on the problems of Historical Demography through analysis of historical texts

Week #10:
The evolution of the world's population
Developing practical skills on the problems of Historical Demography through analysis of historical texts

Week #11:
The thought and the view of the different cultures on the problem of the population (Israel, Ancient Greece, Rome, state populism)
Developing practical skills on the problems of Historical Demography through analysis of historical texts

Week #12:
The “physiocrates” and Malthus
Developing practical skills on the problems of Historical Demography through analysis of historical texts

Week #13:
19th Century and Demographic trends
PRESENTATION OF STUDENT PROJECTS

https://history.ionio.gr/postgraduate/demography/links/
Guillaume - J.P. Poussou, Démographie historique. G. Poulalion, La science de la population. Δ. Ανωγιάτης-Pele, ΙΑθανασοπούλου, Οικιστικό πλέγμα και θνησιμότητα στους Παξούς. Α. Desrosières, Η πολιτική των μεγάλων αριθμών. Μ. Τομαρά – Σιδέρη, Ιστορική Δημογραφία

Use of power point, excel and SPSS software, historical sources, videos, using maps, basic mathematical data processing.

Written examination and essay writing.