<title>Abstract.</title>Australian Bureau of Statistics Total Fertility Rate (TFR) statistics are available from 1921 for Australia, and for census years between 1947 and 1966 for the states, and then on an annual basis from 1971. Using historical, statistical publications, annual TFRs for Australia and the...

<title>Abstract.</title>In this article, the authors consider translation and translators as agents in globalization processes and focus on their role in the "first globalization" within the Spanish empire from 1500 onward. Combining concepts and methods from history and translation studies, they take the...

<title>Abstract.</title>Research benefits a great deal when different kinds of registers can be combined. Record linkage is an important tool for connecting sources to create longitudinal databases of individual data. In this article, researchers test and evaluate different methods of record linkage used when...

Julius Drachsler's 1921 book, <italic>Intermarriage in New York City</italic>, examined 171,356 individual marriage license applications from New York City in the years 1908--12. The author found little intermarriage across social lines among immigrants but a considerable amount among their U.S.-born children....

The density of the railway network increased in all European states during the period of 1850-1920, but not with the same pattern. Historical data reveal that countries located at the physical extremities of the European continent took much longer to adopt the railway (and thus integrate into an...

This article presents new evidence on the evolution of regional inequality in Iberia from 1900 to 2000 from a geographical perspective. To do so we introduce a new historical dataset of regional gross domestic products (GDPs) for Spanish NUTS III and Portuguese Historical Districts, synthetic...

This article describes a new approach for analyzing data within national historical geographic information system databases that can be used to explore long-term trends in landscape evolution. The methodology is based on clustering together areas with similar demographic characteristics to...

The author analyzes the voting behavior of legislators in the Congresses of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. He shows that the occupation of Confederate Congressional districts by Federal troops led legislators to abandon their previous voting behavior and instead...