Science without laws? Model building, micro histories and the fate of the theory of fertility decline

Historical Social Research

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 10-41

  Szołtysek, Mikołaj ^a  

^a Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure   (United Kingdom)

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