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UNINA9910453165803321 |
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Titolo |
Population and society in western European port cities, c.1650-1939 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Richard Lawton and Robert Lee |
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Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, c2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-78138-811-3 |
1-84631-383-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (408 p.) |
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Collana |
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Liverpool studies in European population ; ; 2 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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LawtonRichard <1943-> |
LeeWilliam R. <1932-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Demography - Europe |
Port districts - Europe - History |
Cities and towns - Europe - Growth |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Title Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; 1: Port Development and the Demographic Dynamics of European Urbanization; 2: Industrialization and Demographic Change: A Case Study of Glasgow, 1801-1914; 3: The Population Dynamics and Economic Development of Genoa, 1750-1939; 4: The Components of Demographic Change in a Rapidly Growing Port-City: The Case of Liverpool in the Nineteenth Century; 5: The Mortality Development of a Port-Town in a National Perspective: The Experience of Malmo ̈ , Sweden, 1820-1914 |
6: Population Dynamics and Economic Change in Trieste and its Hinterland, 1850-19147: The Admiralty Connection: Port Development and Demographic Change in Portsmouth, 1650-1900; 8: The Port-City Legacy: Urban Demographic Change in the Hansestadt Bremen, 1815-1910; 9: Changes in Population Development, Urban Structures and Living Conditions in Nineteenth-Century Hamburg; 10: Demographic Change and Social Structure: The Workers and the Bourgeoisie in Nantes, 1830-1848; 11: Population, Society and Politics in Cork from the Late-Eighteenth Century to 1900; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This volume brings together ten original papers on the population dynamics and development of Western European port cities. In a substantial overview chapter Lawton and Lee examine 'Port Development and the Demographic Dynamics of European Urbanisation', setting in context the individual case studies that follow. These studies - of Bremen, Cork, Genoa, Glasgow, Hamburg, Liverpool, Malmö, Nantes, Portsmouth and Trieste - provide an important enhancement of our understanding of the particular socio-economic and demographic characteristics of port cities, and point to the existence of a particula |
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