Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time – serie
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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 Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100
Europe, America, and the Third World
Av Robert William Fogel, Richard Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
435 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 …
Neighbourhood and Society: A London Suburb in the Seventeenth Century
Av Jeremy Boulton, Richard Smith
Häftad, 2005
491 kr
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This book is a pioneering social and economic study of a London suburban parish in the seventeenth century, which sheds new light on the important but relatively neglected topic of London's social history. Chapters on demography, social and occupational structure, topography, population turnover …
English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580-1837
Av E. A. Wrigley, R. S. Davies m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
491 kr
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English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580-1837 is the most important single contribution to English historical demography since Wrigley and Schofield's Population History of England. It represents the culmination of work carried out at the Cambridge Group for the History of …
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 …
The Demography of Roman Egypt
Av Roger S. Bagnall, Bruce W. Frier m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
502 kr
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The traditional demographic regime of ancient Greece and Rome is almost entirely unknown; but our best chance for understanding its characteristics is provided by the three hundred census returns that survive on papyri from Roman Egypt. These returns, which date from the first three centuries AD, …
Changing Family Size in England and Wales
Place, Class and Demography, 1891-1911
Av Eilidh Garrett, Alice Reid m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
905 kr
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This volume is an important study in demographic history. It draws on the individual returns from the 1891, 1901 and 1911 censuses of England and Wales, to which Garrett, Reid, Schürer and Szreter were permitted access ahead of scheduled release dates. Using the responses of the inhabitants of …
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 …
Height, Health and History
Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980
Av Roderick Floud, Kenneth Wachter m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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In historical accounts of the circumstances of ordinary people's lives, nutrition has been the great unknown. Nearly impossible to measure or assess directly, it has nonetheless been held responsible for the declining mortality rates of the nineteenth century as well as being a major factor in the …
Upland Communities
Environment, Population and Social Structure in the Alps since the Sixteenth Century
Av Pier Paolo Viazzo, Richard Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
821 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 Decline of Life
Old Age in Eighteenth-Century England
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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The Decline of Life is an ambitious and absorbing study of old age in eighteenth-century England. Drawing on a wealth of sources - literature, correspondence, poor house and workhouse documents and diaries - Susannah Ottaway considers a wide range of experiences and expectations of age in the …
Fate and Fortune in Rural China
Social Organization and Population Behavior in Liaoning 1774-1873
Av James Z. Lee, Cameron D. Campbell
Häftad, 2007
921 kr
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Fate and Fortune in Rural China is a major contribution to the study of both the social and population history of late traditional China, and that of historical demography in general. Lee and Campbell use the example of Liaoning to demonstrate the interaction between demographic and other social …
Transforming English Rural Society
The Verneys and the Claydons, 1600-1820
Av John Broad
Häftad, 2007
902 kr
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Between 1540 and 1920 the English elite transformed the countryside and landscape by building up landed estates which were concentrated around their country houses. John Broad's study of the Verney family of Middle Claydon in Buckinghamshire demonstrates two sides of that process. Charting the …
Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany
Av Paul Warde
Häftad, 2010
738 kr
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This is an innovative analysis of the agrarian world and growth of government in early modern Germany through the medium of pre-industrial society's most basic material resource, wood. Paul Warde offers a regional study of south-west Germany from the late fifteenth to the early eighteenth century, …
Medical Lives in the Age of Surgical Revolution
Av M. Anne Crowther, Marguerite W. Dupree
Häftad, 2010
687 kr
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This book is an unusual history of doctors trained in Britain in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and their careers in Britain and the empire. Anne Crowther and Marguerite Dupree describe the experience of a whole generation of doctors at a time of rapid changes in medical knowledge. …
Town and Country in Pre-Industrial Spain
Cuenca, 1540-1870
Av David Reher
Häftad, 2012
552 kr
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Originally published in 1990, this is an in-depth study of Cuenca, a hilltop town on the Castilian Meseta, from the middle of the 16th to the end of the 19th centuries. Dr Reher analyses its socio-economic structures in the context of the urbanisation of rural Spain, and shows how the history of …
Height, Health and History
Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980
Av Roderick Floud, Kenneth Wachter m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
2214 kr
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In historical accounts of the circumstances of ordinary people's lives, nutrition has been the great unknown. Nearly impossible to measure or assess directly, it has nonetheless been held responsible for the declining mortality rates of the nineteenth century as well as being a major factor in the …
Upland Communities
Environment, Population and Social Structure in the Alps since the Sixteenth Century
Inbunden, 1989
2046 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 …
Patriarchy, Property and Death in the Roman Family
Inbunden, 1994
1677 kr
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The figure of the Roman father has traditionally provided the pattern of patriarchy in European thought. This book shows how the social realities and cultural representations diverged from this paradigm. Demographic analysis and computer simulation demonstrate that before adulthood most Romans lost …
Annals of the Labouring Poor
Social Change and Agrarian England, 1660-1900
Häftad, 1987
921 kr
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This collection of inter-connected essays is concerned with the impact of social and economic change upon the rural labouring poor and artisans in England, and combines a sensitive understanding of their social priorities with innovative quantitative analysis. It is based on an impressive range of …
Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940
Inbunden, 1996
2549 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 …
Making a Medical Living
Doctors and Patients in the English Market for Medicine, 1720-1911
Av Anne Digby
Inbunden, 1994
2146 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 …
Death and the Metropolis
Studies in the Demographic History of London, 1670-1830
Av John Landers, Richard Smith
Inbunden, 1993
1912 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 …
The Population History of England 1541-1871
Av E. A. Wrigley, R. S. Schofield
Häftad, 1989
720 kr
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This was the first paperback edition of a classic work of recent English historiography, first published in 1981. In analysing the population of a country over several centuries, the authors qualify, confirm or overturn traditional assumptions and marshal a mass of statistical material into a …
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, …
State Corporatism and Proto-Industry
The Württemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797
Inbunden, 1997
2146 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 …
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 …
Famine, Disease and the Social Order in Early Modern Society
Av John Walter, Roger Schofield
Häftad, 1991
502 kr
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Although Western societies cannot escape from images of famine in the present world, their direct experience of widespread hunger has receded into the past. England was one of the very first countries to escape from the shadow of famine; in this volume a team of distinguished economic, social and …
Family and Social Change
The Household as a Process in an Industrializing Community
Inbunden, 1993
2029 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 …
