Historical Demography

Central University Press – Amsterdam University Press

This book series, published under the auspices of the European Society for Historical Demography, provides a forum for research on population dynamics between 1750 and 2000. It focuses on the study of fertility, mortality, nuptiality, migration, family systems, and population structures and aims to contribute to ongoing research in these areas.

Historical Demography includes both monographs and edited volumes and welcomes manuscripts from emerging and advanced scholars alike. It examines demographic processes within their broader social, economic, and cultural contexts and invites contributions on topics such as family and household organization, kinship relations, gender roles, and patterns of inequality related to class, occupation, ethnicity, or region, as well as studies of health, disease, survival, migration, and urbanization.

Particular attention is given to work that connects these demographic patterns to wider historical developments, including industrialization, economic change, colonization, and the formation of welfare states in order to situate population change within broader historical processes. The series accommodates a wide range of methodological approaches, including both quantitative and qualitative research, large-scale data analysis, and micro-level studies based on historical sources, and particularly welcomes comparative, longitudinal, and interdisciplinary perspectives as well as contributions that engage with methodological and theoretical questions.

Website: https://www.aup.nl/en/series/historical-demography

Photo: Nurses with infants in the Wilhelmina Hospital, 1916. Source: Amsterdam City Archives.