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- Title
Routine Infanticide in the West 1500-1800.
- Authors
Hanlon, Gregory
- Abstract
Historians have assumed that early modern Europeans did not practice neo-naticide similar to the great Asian civilizations, but sex-ratio studies are only now entering the demographic literature. This article passes in review both published and unpublished research on sex ratios at baptism in Italy, France, England and colonial Acadia, together with juvenile sex ratios drawn from censuses in Germany, France and Italy. Both endemic and conjunctural imbalances appear everywhere, but they could target females or males depending upon the context.
- Subjects
WESTERN Europe; INFANTICIDE; SEX ratio; DEMOGRAPHIC change; UNWANTED pregnancy; HISTORY; SOCIAL history
- Publication
History Compass, 2016, Vol 14, Issue 11, p535
- ISSN
1478-0542
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/hic3.12361