Robert Woods

The Demography of Victorian England and Wales

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Robert Woods examines the changing population history of England and Wales beween 1837 and 1914.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 492
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 859g
• ISBN-13: 9780521782548
• ISBN-10: 0521782546
• Artikelnr.: 26701232

Inhaltsangabe

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.