ISBN:
9780511895494
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xxiii, 408 pages)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 20
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DDC:
304.6/4/094212
Keywords:
Geschichte 1700-1800
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Geschichte 1600-1700
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Geschichte 1800-1900
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Geschichte 1670-1830
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Geschichte
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Mortality / England / London / History
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Family reconstitution / England / London / History
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Bevölkerungsentwicklung
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Sterblichkeit
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Bevölkerung
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London (England) / Population / History / 17th century
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London (England) / Population / History / 18th century
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London (England) / Population / History / 19th century
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London
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London
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Bevölkerung
;
Geschichte 1670-1830
;
London
;
Bevölkerungsentwicklung
;
Geschichte 1670-1830
;
London
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Sterblichkeit
;
Geschichte 1670-1830
Abstract:
Death and the Metropolis offers a powerful analysis of demographic patterns in London over the 'long eighteenth century', concentrating on mortality but also including data on marital fertility, population structure and migration. The study is based on a variety of sources including weekly and annual Bills of Mortality, parish registers and Quaker vital registers, and employs the techniques of family reconstitution and aggregative analysis. The data are analysed within the framework of a structural model of mortality change comprising the proximate determinants of exposure to, and resistance against, infectious agents on the the part of populations. Within this framework a model is established describing the specific demographic and epidemiological characteristics of early modern metropolitan centres. The evidence indicates that mortality in London was much higher than in other settlements in England for most of the period, but declined steeply in the later eighteenth century. This apparently reflected changes in exposure to infections
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511895494
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