Profound changes have occurred in the demography and sociology of
Italian fertility since Napoleonic times. Using the statistical
system instituted in 1861 with national unification, Massimo
Livi-Bacci provides a systematic and detailed analysis of fertility
trends in Italy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He
brings to light the main features of the secular decline: its rapid
occurrence in the northern and central areas; the widening
urban-rural gap; the shaping of social and economic differences;
and the late, slow downward trend in the South. Multivariate
statistical analysis enables the author to measure the changing
relationship between fertility and social or economic phenomena.
Historical evidence illustrates the effect on fertility of mass
emigration and Fascist policy as well as of social changes such as
those in agrarian structure, mobility, and communications. An
altered attitude toward procreation is evident in some parts of
Italy in the early nineteenth century. The decline becomes apparent
in certain northern and central regions in the 1870s and 1880s and
it appears at the aggregate national level in the 1890s. Originally
published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
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since its founding in 1905.
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