Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- 1 Bricks without straw, bones without flesh
- 2 Vital statistics
- 3 Whatever happened to the preventive check?
- 4 Family limitation
- 5 The laws of vitality
- 6 Mortality by occupation and social group
- 7 The origins of the secular decline of childhood mortality
- 8 Places and causes
- 9 The demographic consequences of urbanisation
- 10 The transformation of the English and other demographic regimes
- 11 Conclusions and unresolved conundrums
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
List of tables
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- 1 Bricks without straw, bones without flesh
- 2 Vital statistics
- 3 Whatever happened to the preventive check?
- 4 Family limitation
- 5 The laws of vitality
- 6 Mortality by occupation and social group
- 7 The origins of the secular decline of childhood mortality
- 8 Places and causes
- 9 The demographic consequences of urbanisation
- 10 The transformation of the English and other demographic regimes
- 11 Conclusions and unresolved conundrums
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
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- The Demography of Victorian England and Wales , pp. xix - xxiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000