Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-362) and index.

Simplicity and complexity / James Z. Lee, Tommy Bengtsson, Cameron Campbell -- Previous paradigms and new models / James Z. Lee, Wang Feng, Noriko O. Tsuya -- Reproduction : models and sources / Noriko O. Tsuya, Cameron Campbell, Wang Feng -- Household organization, co-resident kin, and reproduction / Wang Feng ... [et al.] -- Economic stress and reproductive responses / Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe -- Child control as a reproductive strategy / Renzo Derosas and Noriko O. Tsuya -- Agency, social class, and fertility in southern Sweden, 1766-1865 / Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe -- Economic change and differential fertility in rural eastern Belgium, 1812-1875 / George Alter, Muriel Neven, Michel Oris -- Patterns of reproductive behavior in preindustrial Italy : Casalguidi, 1819 to 1859, and Venice, 1850 to 1869 / Marco Breschi ... [et al.] -- Family, household, and reproduction in northeastern Japan, 1716 to 1870 / Noriko O. Tsuya and Satomi Kurosu -- Agency, hierarchies, and reproduction in northeastern China, 1789 to 1840 / Wang Feng, Cameron Campbell, James Z. Lee -- Differences and similarities : towards a comparative historical social science / James Z. Lee, Wang Feng, Noriko O. Tsuya.