ISBN:
9781843839552
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (364 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History v.Volume 5
Series Statement:
People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History Ser. v.5
Parallel Title:
Print version Population, Welfare and Economic Change in Britain, 1290-1834
DDC:
304.60941
Keywords:
Households -- Great Britain -- History
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Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects
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Great Britain -- Population -- History
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Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Presents the latest research on the causes and consequences of British population change from the medieval period to the eve of the Industrial Revolution, in both town and countryside
Description / Table of Contents:
Frontcover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 European Marriage Patterns and their Implications: John Hajnal's Essay and Historical Demography during the Last Half-Century; 2 The Population Geography of Great Britain c.1290: a Provisional Reconstruction; 3 Mobility and Mortality: How Place of Origin Affected the Life Chances of Late Medieval Scholars at Winchester College and New College Oxford; 4 Family and Welfare in Early Modern Europe: a North-South Comparison
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Support for the Elderly during the 'Crisis' of the English Old Poor Law6 Indoors or Outdoors? Welfare Priorities and Pauper Choices in the Metropolis under the Old Poor Law, 1718-1824; 7 Population Growth and Corporations of the Poor, 1660-1841; 8 Charity and Commemoration: a Berkshire Family and their Almshouse, 1675-1763; 9 The Institutional Context of Serfdom in England and Russia; 10 Choices and Constraints in the Pre-Industrial Countryside; 11 Some Commercial Implications of English Individualism; Select Bibliography; Index
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