The demography of Victorian England and Wales:
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1. Verfasser: Woods, Robert (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 35
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-439) and index
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 447 pages, [16] pages of plates)
ISBN:0511008635
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0511118767
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9780511008634
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