The demography of Victorian England and Wales /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time ;
35 |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=77548 |
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.