[The history of the French population. Part 2: from the Renaissance to 1789]

This is the second in a planned series of four volumes on the history of the population of France and covers the period from the fifteenth century to the French Revolution of 1789. Chapters are included on data sources and institutions population estimation migration natural increase demographic crises mortality marriage and the family fertility the factors controlling population trends growth and instability the economic consequences of population growth and the economists the philosophers and population. (ANNOTATION)