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| From Provinces into Nations: Demographic Integration in Western Europe, 1870-1960 |  | Author: Susan Cotts Watkins
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0691094519
Dewey Decimal Number: 304.632094
EAN: 9780691094519
ASIN: 0691094519
Publication Date: February 1991
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Between 1870 and 1960, national boundaries became more evident on the demographic map of Western Europe. In most of the fifteen countries examined here, differences in marital fertility, illegitimacy, and marriage from one province (counties, cantons, arrondissements) to another diminished considerably. From Provinces into Nations describes this shift to greater national demographic homogeneity and places it in the context of a parallel decline in linguistic diversity, as well as in the context of increases in national market integration, the expansion of state activities, and nation-building. The book interprets the shift as evidence of the influence of communities on demographic behavior, and as an indication of the growing predominance of national over local communities. The author uses demographic data, too often the property of specialists, to examine themes of interest to historians, sociologists, economists, and political scientists interested in the integration of modern societies.
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