Product Description: En el plazo de unos pocos años España se ha convertido en una potente fuente de atracción para inmigrantes provenientes de los países desarrollados, del norte de Ã?frica, del continente americano, del este de Europa y de otras partes del mundo...read more

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Product Description: This is the first comprehensive study of the family in Spain from 1700 to 1970. Using approaches from a number of disciplines, it examines the family as a dynamic unit working within the constraints of the prevailing social, demographic, economic, and cultural realities in any given historical context...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: These papers, presented at a seminar on Methods in Historical Demography, discuss some of the aspects of that subject that have attracted the most attention over the past decade. Written by an international group of experts, the papers combine in-depth development of certain topics with general syntheses of others...read more

Product Description: Originally published in 1990, this is an in-depth study of Cuenca, a hilltop town on the Castilian Meseta, from the middle of the 16th to the end of the 19th centuries. Dr Reher analyses its socio-economic structures in the context of the urbanisation of rural Spain, and shows how the history of the town is paradigmatic of the social, economic and demographic changes in urban areas of the Mediterranean basin...read more