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The Demography of Victorian England and Wales.
Robert Woods describes in detail the changing population history of England and Wales between 1837 and 1914, focusing on the great demographic revolution which occurred during those years. This reference book is lavishly illustrated, clearly written, and comprehensive in coverage: it makes a seminal...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, 35.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminaries; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; 1: Bricks without straw, bones without flesh; 2: Vital statistics; 3: Whatever happened to the preventive check?; 4: Family limitation; 5: The laws of vitality; 6: Mortality by occupation and social group; 7: The origins of the secular decline of childhood mortality; 8: Places and causes; 9: The demographic consequences of urbanisation; 10: The transformation of the English and other demographic regimes; 11: Conclusions and unresolved conundrums; Bibliography; Index.
- Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time.