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Living Standards of Women in Prefamine Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Deborah Oxley
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Abstract

Prefamine Irish living standards have proved enigmatic. They are intriguing because they hold the key to understanding the trajectory of economic development in the first half of the nineteenth century. They have remained elusive because of the paucity of available information. Using Australian data, this paper examines regional trends in Irish-born female convict heights, identifying divergent tendencies between west and east that left Ulster women the tallest in the land.

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Social Science History , Volume 28 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Recent Research In Anthropometric History , Summer 2004 , pp. 271 - 295
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 2004 

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