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99 produkter
Making a Medical Living
Doctors and Patients in the English Market for Medicine, 1720-1911
Av Anne Digby, Richard Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
502 kr
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How did doctors make a living? Making a Medical Living explores the neglected socio-economic history of medical practice, beginning with the first voluntary hospital in 1720 and ending with national health insurance in 1911. It looks at public appointments in hospitals and dispensaries, office …
The First Modern Economy
Success, Failure, and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500-1815
Av Jan de Vries, Ad van der Woude
Häftad, 1997
720 kr
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The First Modern Economy provides a comprehensive economic history of the Netherlands during its rise to European economic leadership, the 'Golden Age', and subsequent decline (1500-1815). The authors argue that it was the first modern economy, and defend their position with detailed analyses of …
Pregnancy and Childbirth
Av Jan de Vries
E-bok, 2011
55 kr
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Allaying the doubts and fears which surround the most natural and yet probably the most traumatic experience a woman will go through, Pregnancy and Childbirth takes you step by step through conception, pregnancy, labour and the care of your baby. Calling upon a lifetime's experience in helping …
European Urbanization, 1500-1800
Av Jan de Vries
Inbunden, 2006
3793 kr
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In European Urbanization Jan de Vries provides a comprehensive data base for understanding the nature of the changes that took place in European cities from 1500 to 1800. The book is based on an immense systematic survey of the population history of 379 European cities with 10,000 or more …
European Urbanization, 1500-1800
Av Jan de Vries
Häftad, 2013
922 kr
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In European Urbanization Jan de Vries provides a comprehensive data base for understanding the nature of the changes that took place in European cities from 1500 to 1800. The book is based on an immense systematic survey of the population history of 379 European cities with 10,000 or more …
The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100
Europe, America, and the Third World
Av Robert William Fogel, Richard Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
426 kr
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Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's compelling study, first published in 2004, examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. Throughout most of human history, chronic malnutrition has been the norm. During the past three centuries, however, a synergy between …
State Corporatism and Proto-Industry
The Württemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797
Av Sheilagh C. Ogilvie, Richard Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
720 kr
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State Corporatism and Proto-Industry focuses on an industrial countryside in south-west Germany, where a dense worsted industry dominated the rural economy from 1580 to 1800. This is an example of 'proto-industry', the dense, export-oriented rural manufacturing which arose throughout Europe before …
Death and the Metropolis
Studies in the Demographic History of London, 1670-1830
Av John Landers, Richard Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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Death and the Metropolis offers a powerful analysis of demographic patterns in London over the 'long eighteenth century', concentrating on mortality but also including data on marital fertility, population structure and migration. The study is based on a variety of sources including weekly and …
Upland Communities
Environment, Population and Social Structure in the Alps since the Sixteenth Century
Av Pier Paolo Viazzo, Richard Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
803 kr
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This book follows the social, economic and demographic transformations of the Alpine area from the late Middle Ages. Its aim is to reassess the image of the upland community which emerges from the work of historians, geographers and social anthropologists. The book therefore deals at length with …
The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, 1600-1750
Av Jan de Vries
Häftad, 1976
341 kr
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By relating economic changes to the political backdrop, The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, 1600-1750 describes and analyzes the economic civilisation of Europe in the last epoch before the Industrial Revolution. The author makes a special effort to apply economic reasoning to the economic …
Population and Nutrition
An Essay on European Demographic History
Av Massimo Livi-Bacci, Richard Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
586 kr
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From the time of Malthus, the insufficient supply of food resources has been considered the main constraint of population growth and the main factor in the high mortality prevailing in pre-industrial times. In this essay, the mechanisms of biological, social and cultural nature linking subsistence, …
London in the Age of Industrialisation
Entrepreneurs, Labour Force and Living Conditions, 1700-1850
Av L. D. Schwarz, Richard Smith m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
2113 kr
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This book is the first full-length analysis of the London working population and the effects of the industrial revolution in London to appear for over sixty years. Prior to the mid nineteenth century London may not have experienced the direct effects of the industrial revolution to any great …
Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England
Av Mary J. Dobson, Richard Smith m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
2767 kr
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This 1997 book provides a penetrating account of death and disease in England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Using a wide range of sources for the south-east of England, the author highlights the tremendous variation in levels of mortality across geographical contours and across …
A General View of the Rural Economy of England, 1538-1840
Av Ann Kussmaul, Richard Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
619 kr
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In rural England prior to the Industrial Revolution people generally married when they were not busy with work. Parish registers of marriage therefore form an important and innovative source for the study of economic change in this period. Dr Kussmaul employs marriage dates to identify three main …
Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940
Av Simon Szreter, Richard Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
854 kr
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This book offers an original interpretation of the history of falling fertilities in Britain between 1860 and 1940. It integrates the approaches of the social sciences and of demographic, feminist, and labour history with intellectual, social, and political history. It exposes the conceptual and …
London in the Age of Industrialisation
Entrepreneurs, Labour Force and Living Conditions, 1700-1850
Av L. D. Schwarz, Richard Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
754 kr
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This book is the first full-length analysis of the London working population and the effects of the industrial revolution in London to appear for over sixty years. Prior to the mid nineteenth century London may not have experienced the direct effects of the industrial revolution to any great …
Microhistories
Demography, Society and Culture in Rural England, 1800-1930
Av Barry Reay, Richard Smith m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
2068 kr
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Microhistories: Demography, Society and Culture in Rural England, 1800-1930 uses a local study of the Blean area of Kent in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to explore some of the more significant societal changes of the modern western world. Drawing on a wide range of research …
The First Modern Economy
Success, Failure, and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500-1815
Av Jan de Vries, Ad van der Woude
Inbunden, 1997
2482 kr
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The First Modern Economy provides a comprehensive economic history of the Netherlands during its rise to European economic leadership, the 'Golden Age', and subsequent decline (1500-1815). The authors argue that it was the first modern economy, and defend their position with detailed analyses of …
The Industrious Revolution
Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present
Av Jan de Vries
Häftad, 2008
435 kr
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In the long eighteenth century, new consumer aspirations combined with a new industrious behavior to fundamentally alter the material cultures of northwest Europe and North America. This 'industrious revolution' is the context in which the economic acceleration associated with the Industrial …
The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100
Europe, America, and the Third World
Av Robert William Fogel, Richard Smith m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
1341 kr
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Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's compelling study, first published in 2004, examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. Throughout most of human history, chronic malnutrition has been the norm. During the past three centuries, however, a synergy between …
Scottish Literacy and the Scottish Identity
Illiteracy and Society in Scotland and Northern England, 1600-1800
Av R. A. Houston, Richard Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
803 kr
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Scottish education and literacy have achieved a legendary status. A campaign promoted by church and state between 1560 and 1696 is said to have produced the most literate population in the early modern world. This book sets out to test this belief by comparing the ability to read and write in …
Men at Work
Labourers and Building Craftsmen in the Towns of Northern England, 1450-1750
Av Donald Woodward, Richard Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
754 kr
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This study redresses the North and South imbalance of much work on economic and social history by focusing on the lives and economic impact of the building trade in the major urban centres of the North during the early modern period. The period 1450-1750 witnessed substantial changes in England: to …
Migration in a Mature Economy
Emigration and Internal Migration in England and Wales 1861-1900
Av Dudley Baines, Richard Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
804 kr
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In this study Mr Baines has devised a method of estimating the county of birth of all permanent emigrants from England and Wales in the last four decades of the nineteenth century - some 2.3 million people. He has related the rate and timing of migration to the social and economic characteristics …
Family and Social Change
The Household as a Process in an Industrializing Community
Av Angelique Janssens, Richard Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
787 kr
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This book is a quantitative study into the influence of the process of industrialisation on the nature and strength of family relationships in a Dutch community between 1850 and 1920. The study makes use of the unique and unusually rich source of Dutch population registers, which enables the author …
Worlds within Worlds
Structures of Life in Sixteenth-Century London
Av Steve Rappaport, Richard Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
574 kr
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The enormous growth of London during the early modern period brought with it major social problems, yet, as Steve Rappaport demonstrates in this innovative study, Tudor London was essentially a stable society, subject to stress but never seriously threatened by widespread popular unrest or other …
Microhistories
Demography, Society and Culture in Rural England, 1800-1930
Av Barry Reay, Richard Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
502 kr
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Microhistories: Demography, Society and Culture in Rural England, 1800-1930 uses a local study of the Blean area of Kent in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to explore some of the more significant societal changes of the modern western world. Drawing on a wide range of research …
A Community Transformed
The Manor and Liberty of Havering-atte-Bower 1500-1620
Av Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, Richard Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
787 kr
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A Community Transformed traces the restructuring of Havering between 1500 and 1620 through detailed analysis of demographic patterns, the economy, religion, social and cultural forms, and local administration and law. McIntosh's study, the most complex and richly drawn portrait of any English …
Controlling Misbehavior in England, 1370-1600
Av Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, Richard Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
435 kr
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In this important study, Professor McIntosh argues against the suggestion that social regulation was a distinctive feature of the decades around 1600, resulting from Puritanism. Instead, through an examination of 255 village and small-town communities distributed throughout England, Professor …
The Industrious Revolution
Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present
Av Jan de Vries
Inbunden, 2008
1362 kr
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In the long eighteenth century, new consumer aspirations combined with a new industrious behavior to fundamentally alter the material cultures of northwest Europe and North America. This 'industrious revolution' is the context in which the economic acceleration associated with the Industrial …
