The demography of Victorian England and Wales /

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The Demography of Victorian England and Wales uses the full range of nineteenth-century civil registration material to describe in detail for the first time the changing population history of England and Wales between 1837 and 1914. Its principal focus is the great demographic revolution which occur...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Woods, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Series:Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time ; 35.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Demography > England.
Demography > Wales.
Démographie > Angleterre.
Démographie > Pays de Galles.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Demography.
Demography.
Population.
Bevolkingsontwikkeling.
England > Population.
Wales > Population.
Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Angleterre > Population.
Pays de Galles > Population.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
England.
Great Britain.
Wales.
Engeland.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Series-title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • 1 Bricks without straw, bones without flesh
  • True facts
  • Systems
  • Transitions
  • Time and space
  • 2 Vital statistics
  • Contents of the Annual Reports
  • The quality of registration
  • Detection without correction
  • 3 Whatever happened to the preventive check?
  • The European marriage pattern in the nineteenth century
  • Nuptiality patterns in England and Wales
  • The effects of urbanisation, migration and occupational specialisation on nuptiality
  • Local studies
  • between pages 96 ... 97
  • The influence of marriage patterns on illegitimate fertility
  • The Victorian marriage pattern and its antecedents
  • 4 Family limitation
  • Transition theory
  • Social diffusion
  • Contraceptive revolution?
  • Coale and Trussell: stopping or spacing?
  • Illegitimate fertility
  • Demographic balance
  • Preconditions
  • Empirical relationships
  • Why there are still no firm conclusions
  • 5 The laws of vitality
  • Age
  • Farr's law
  • 6 Mortality by occupation and social group
  • The official reporting of occupational mortality in Victorian England
  • Mortality among occupations
  • The social class gradient of male mortality ... the interplay of occupational, economic, environmental and selective factors
  • 7 The origins of the secular decline of childhood mortality
  • The characteristics of childhood mortality in Victorian England and Wales
  • The childhood mortality problem: contemporary and recent approaches
  • Fertility and infant mortality
  • Poverty, female education, fertility and childhood mortality
  • Some preliminary conclusions
  • 8 Places and causes
  • Causes of death
  • Crowding
  • Water
  • Air
  • Phthisis
  • Composite disease environments
  • The McKeown interpretation further confounded
  • 9 The demographic consequences of urbanisation
  • 10 The transformation of the English and other demographic regimes
  • 11 Conclusions and unresolved conundrums
  • Bibliography.

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