Table of Contents

*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Figures, pg. ix*Tables, pg. xi*Acknowledgments, pg. xv*Chapter 1: Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter 2: The Social and Economic Setting from 1750 to 1913, pg. 12*Chapter 3: Methods of Fertility Measurement, pg. 52*Chapter 4: Trends in Overall Fertility, 1841-1931, pg. 75*Chapter 5: Nuptiality Components of Fertility, pg. 97*Chapter 6: Marital and Extramarital Fertility, pg. 114*Chapter 7: Alternative "Explanatory" Models of Marital Fertility Decline, pg. 153*Chapter 8: The Social and Economic Context of Fertility Decline, pg. 192*Chapter 9: Conclusions, pg. 218*Appendix: Two Sets of County Boundaries, and Erroneous Figures for County Vital Rates in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, pg. 228*Bibliography, pg. 246*Index, pg. 263