Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. ILLUSTRATIONS xii
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
5. A NOTE ON CONVENTIONS xix
6. 1. Introduction. Contested Worldviews and a Demographic Revolution 1
7. PART ONE. The Culture of Low Fertility, ca. 1660–1790
8. 2. Three Cultures of Family Planning 25
9. 3. Humans, Animals, and Newborn Children 47
10. 4. Infanticide and Immortality. The Logic of the Stem Household 61
11. 5. The Material and Moral Economy of Infanticide 69
12. 6. The Logic of Infant Selection 91
13. 7. The Ghosts of Missing Children. Four Approaches to Estimating the Rate of Infanticide 109
14. PART TWO. Redefining Reproduction. The Long Retreat of Infanticide, ca. 1790–1950
15. 8. Infanticide and Extinction 129
16. 9. “Inferior Even to Animals”. Moral Suasion and the Boundaries of Humanity 138
17. 10. Subsidies and Surveillance 158
18. 11. Even a Strong Castle Cannot Be Defended without Soldiers. Infanticide and National Security 183
19. 12. Infanticide and the Geography of Civilization 194
20. 13. Epilogue Infanticide in the Shadows of the Modern State 208
21. 14. Conclusion 232
22. APPENDIX ONE. The Own-Children Method and Its Mortality Assumptions 245
23. APPENDIX TWO. Sampling Biases, Sources of Error, and the Characteristics of the Ten Provinces Dataset 253
24. APPENDIX THREE. The Villages in the Ten Provinces Dataset 261
25. APPENDIX FOUR 276
26. APPENDIX FIVE 281
27. APPENDIX SIX 285
28. APPENDIX SEVEN 287
29. NOTES 289
30. BIBLIOGRAPHY 353
31. Index 397