Historical demography – i.e. the study of past populations based on specific reconstruction techniques of sources that date from an earlier statistical period – is the core of a growing, long-lasting history of population, although relations between the two fields have remained unsteady throughout time. Thus defined, the emergence of historical demography in Latin America was basically the result of how the region appropriated European methods and models…

Fil: Otero, Hernán Gustavo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto de Geografía, Historia y Ciencias Sociales. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Geografía, Historia y Ciencias Sociales; Argentina