ISBN:
9780203119440
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1280682329
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9780415608541
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9781136315206
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9781280682322
Language:
English
Pages:
xxxii, 668 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge explorations in economic history 55
Uniform Title:
Blagosostoianie naseleniia i revoliutsii v imperskoĭ Rossii 〈English〉
Parallel Title:
Print version The Standard of Living and Revolutions in Imperial Russia, 1700-1917
DDC:
599.9/40947
Keywords:
Russians - Anthropometry
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
This is the first full-scale anthropometric history of Imperial Russia (1700-1917). It mobilizes an immense volume of archival material to chart the growth, weight, and other anthropometric indicators of the male and female populations in order to chart how the standard of living in Russia changed over slightly more than two centuries. It draws on a wide range of data-statistics on agricultural production, taxation, prices and wages, nutrition, and demography-to draw conclusions on the dynamics in the standard of living over this long period of time. The economic, social, and political interpr
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of plates; List of figures; List of tables; Map: The provinces of European Russia; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Living standards in Imperial Russia as portrayed in domestic and foreign historiography; 2 Historical anthropometrics: goals, biological foundations, methodology; 3 The sources of anthropometric data: representativeness, accuracy, and homogeneity; 4 Biological status: the eighteenth century; 5 Biological status: the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; 6 The geography of Russian biological status
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Consumption, health, and biological status8 Wages and prices in Russia from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries; 9 Contemporary observations on the population's standard of living; 10 The modernization of Russia and the well-being of the population; 11 Conclusion; Appendix 1: sources; Appendix 2: selected bibliography; Appendix 3: maximum likelihood estimates of the regionalmean height of males, 1701-1800, from individual data on recruits; Appendix 4: factors in the geographical variation in male height, 1849-1883
Description / Table of Contents:
Appendix 5: factors in the geographical variation in male height, 1880-1900Appendix 6: maximum likelihood estimates of the malemean height from aggregate data on recruits by province and birth year, 1853-1892; Glossary; Notes; Index;
Description / Table of Contents:
Living standards in imperial Russia as portrayed in domestic and foreign historiography -- Historical anthropometrics : goals, biological foundations, methodology -- The sources of anthropometric data : representativeness, accuracy, and homogeneity -- Biological status : the eighteenth century -- Biological status : the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- The geography of russian biological status -- Consumption, health, and biological status -- Wages and prices in Russia from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century -- Contemporary observations on the population's standard of living -- The modernization of russia and the well-being of the population -- Conclusion.
Description / Table of Contents:
goals, biological foundations, methodology -- The sources of anthropometric data : representativeness, accuracy, and homogeneity -- Biological status : the eighteenth century -- Biological status : the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- The geography of russian biological status -- Consumption, health, and biological status -- Wages and prices in Russia from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century -- Contemporary observations on the population's standard of living -- The modernization of russia and the well-being of the population -- Conclusion
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