ISBN:
0199280681
Language:
English
Pages:
XXII, 472 S.
,
graph. Darst.
,
24 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. u.d.T. Living standards in the past
DDC:
339.420950903
Keywords:
Lebensstandard
;
Verbraucherpreisindex
;
Geschichte
;
Asien
;
Europa
;
Cost and standard of living History
;
Cost and standard of living History
;
Cost and standard of living Asia
;
History
;
Cost and standard of living Europe
;
History
;
Sammelwerk
;
Buch
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Asien
;
Europa
;
Bevölkerungsentwicklung
;
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
;
Lebensstandard
;
Geschichte 1600-1800
;
Europa
;
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
;
Bevölkerungsentwicklung
;
Lebensstandard
;
Asien
;
Geschichte 1600-1900
Abstract:
Standards of living in eighteenth century China: regional differences, temporal trends, and incomplete evidence / Kenneth Pomeranz -- Farm labour productivity in Jiangnan, 1620-1850 / Li Bozhong -- Wages, inequality, and pre-industrial growth in Japan, 1727-1894 / Osamu Saito -- Agriculture, labour, and the standard of living in eighteenth-century India / Prasannan Parthasarathi -- Real wages in Europe and Asia: a first look at the long-term patterns / Robert C. Allen -- Sketching the rise of real inequality in early modern Europe / Philip T. Hoffman, David S. Jacks, Patricia A. Levin, and Peter H. Lindert -- What happened to the standard of living before the industrial revolution? new evidence from the western part of the Netherlands / Jan Luiten van Zanden -- Economic growth, human capital formation and consumption in Western Europe before 1800 / Jaime Reis -- Health and nutrition in the pre-industrial era: insights from a millennium of average heights in Northern Europe / Richard H. Steckel -- The burden of grandeur: physical and economic well-being of the Russian population in the eighteenth century / Boris Mironov -- Maternal mortality as an indicator of the standard of living in eighteenth and nineteenth century Slavonia / Eugene A. Hammel and Aaron Gullickson -- The standard of living in Denmark in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Hans Christian Johansen -- Short-term demographic changes in relation to economic fluctuations: the case of Tuscany during the pre-transitional period / Marco Breschi, Alessio Fornasin, and Giovanna Gonano -- New evidence on the standard of living in Sweden during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: long-term development of the demographic response to short-term economic stress / Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe -- Individuals and communities facing economic stress: a comparison of two rural areas in nineteenth century Belgium / Michel Oris, Muriel Neven, and George Alter -- Living standards in Liaoning, 1749-1909: evidence from demographic outcomes / James Z. Lee and Cameron D. Campbell -- Demographic responses to short-term economic stress in eighteenth and nineteenth century rural Japan: evidence from two northeastern villages / Noriko O. Tsuya and Satomi Kurosu
Description / Table of Contents:
Standards of living in eighteenth century China: regional differences, temporal trends, and incomplete evidence / Kenneth Pomeranz -- Farm labour productivity in Jiangnan, 1620-1850 / Li Bozhong -- Wages, inequality, and pre-industrial growth in Japan, 1727-1894 / Osamu Saito -- Agriculture, labour, and the standard of living in eighteenth-century India / Prasannan Parthasarathi -- Real wages in Europe and Asia: a first look at the long-term patterns / Robert C. Allen -- Sketching the rise of real inequality in early modern Europe / Philip T. Hoffman, David S. Jacks, Patricia A. Levin, and Peter H. Lindert -- What happened to the standard of living before the industrial revolution? new evidence from the western part of the Netherlands / Jan Luiten van Zanden -- Economic growth, human capital formation and consumption in Western Europe before 1800 / Jaime Reis -- Health and nutrition in the pre-industrial era: insights from a millennium of average heights in Northern Europe / Richard H. Steckel -- The burden of grandeur: physical and economic well-being of the Russian population in the eighteenth century / Boris Mironov -- Maternal mortality as an indicator of the standard of living in eighteenth and nineteenth century Slavonia / Eugene A. Hammel and Aaron Gullickson -- The standard of living in Denmark in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Hans Christian Johansen -- Short-term demographic changes in relation to economic fluctuations: the case of Tuscany during the pre-transitional period / Marco Breschi, Alessio Fornasin, and Giovanna Gonano -- New evidence on the standard of living in Sweden during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: long-term development of the demographic response to short-term economic stress / Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe -- Individuals and communities facing economic stress: a comparison of two rural areas in nineteenth century Belgium / Michel Oris, Muriel Neven, and George Alter -- Living standards in Liaoning, 1749-1909: evidence from demographic outcomes / James Z. Lee and Cameron D. Campbell -- Demographic responses to short-term economic stress in eighteenth and nineteenth century rural Japan: evidence from two northeastern villages / Noriko O. Tsuya and Satomi Kurosu.
Note:
Enth. 17 Beitr
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Includes bibliographical references and index. - Formerly CIP
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0639/2004026575-d.html
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