ISBN:
9781846313837
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Liverpool studies in European population 2
Series Statement:
Liverpool Studies in European Population, 2
Series Statement:
Liverpool studies in European population
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Population and society in Western European port-cities, c.1650 - 1939
DDC:
304.6094
Keywords:
Cities and towns ; Europe ; Growth
;
Demography ; Europe
;
Port districts ; Europe ; History
;
Electronic books
;
Europe, Western Population
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Europa
;
Hafenstadt
;
Bevölkerung
;
Geschichte 1650-1939
Abstract:
This volume brings together ten original papers on the population dynamics and development of Western European port cities. In a substantial overview chapter Lawton and Lee examine 'Port Development and the Demographic Dynamics of European Urbanisation', setting in context the individual case studies that follow. These studies - of Bremen, Cork, Genoa, Glasgow, Hamburg, Liverpool, Malmö, Nantes, Portsmouth and Trieste - provide an important enhancement of our understanding of the particular socio-economic and demographic characteristics of port cities, and point to the existence of a particular port demographic regime. They emphasise the central importance of the high proportion of unskilled and casual labour, the susceptibility of cyclical employment, the inflated risk of epidemic infection, and other demographic and economic factors specific to port cities.
Abstract:
Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1: Port Development and the Demographic Dynamics of European Urbanization -- 2: Industrialization and Demographic Change: A Case Study of Glasgow, 1801-1914 -- 3: The Population Dynamics and Economic Development of Genoa, 1750-1939 -- 4: The Components of Demographic Change in a Rapidly Growing Port-City: The Case of Liverpool in the Nineteenth Century -- 5: The Mortality Development of a Port-Town in a National Perspective: The Experience of Malmo¨ , Sweden, 1820-1914 -- 6: Population Dynamics and Economic Change in Trieste and its Hinterland, 1850-1914 -- 7: The Admiralty Connection: Port Development and Demographic Change in Portsmouth, 1650-1900 -- 8: The Port-City Legacy: Urban Demographic Change in the Hansestadt Bremen, 1815-1910 -- 9: Changes in Population Development, Urban Structures and Living Conditions in Nineteenth-Century Hamburg -- 10: Demographic Change and Social Structure: The Workers and the Bourgeoisie in Nantes, 1830-1848 -- 11: Population, Society and Politics in Cork from the Late-Eighteenth Century to 1900 -- Index.
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