LEADER 03890oam 22006974a 450 001 9910827742203321 005 20190503073325.0 010 $a0-262-29213-0 010 $a0-262-26809-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000450283 035 $a(EBL)3339841 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000192242 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11166077 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000192242 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10186935 035 $a(PQKB)10334198 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3339841 035 $a(OCoLC)57141654$z(OCoLC)930813071$z(OCoLC)932365538$z(OCoLC)991988103$z(OCoLC)1055386424$z(OCoLC)1081228391 035 $a(OCoLC-P)57141654 035 $a(MaCbMITP)4227 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3339841 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10904662 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL635760 035 $a(OCoLC)57141654 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000450283 100 $a20041203d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aLife under pressure $emortality and living standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900 /$fTommy Bengtsson [and others] 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cMIT$dİ2004 215 $a1 online resource (546 p.) 225 1 $aMIT Press Eurasian population and family history series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-262-51243-2 311 $a0-262-02551-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aA pioneering work in comparative history and social science that compares population behavior in response to adversity in Europe and Asia.This highly original book--the first in a series analyzing historical population behavior in Europe and Asia--pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using techniques of event history analysis, the authors examine 100,000 life histories in 100 rural communities in Western Europe and Asia to analyze the demographic response to social and economic pressures. In doing so they challenge the accepted Eurocentric Malthusian view of population processes and demonstrate that population behavior has not been as uniform as previously thought--that it has often been determined by human agency, particularly social structure and cultural practice.The authors examine the complex relationship between human behavior and social and economic environment, analyzing age, gender, family, kinship, social class and social organization, climate, food prices, and real wages to compare mortality responses to adversity. Their research at the individual, household, and community levels challenges the previously accepted characterizations of social and economic behavior in Europe and Asia in the past. The originality of the analysis as well as the geographic breadth and historical depth of the data make Life Under Pressure a significant advance in the field of historical demography. Its findings will be of interest to scholars in economics, environmental studies, demography, history, and sociology as well as the general reader interested in these subjects. 410 0$aMIT Press Eurasian population and family history series. 606 $aMortality$zEurope 606 $aMortality$zAsia 607 $aEurope$xPopulation 607 $aAsia$xPopulation 607 $aEurope$xEconomic conditions 607 $aAsia$xEconomic conditions 610 $aSOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology 610 $aECONOMICS/Trade & Development 610 $aECONOMICS/International Economics 615 0$aMortality 615 0$aMortality 676 $a304.6/4/09509033 701 $aBengtsson$b Tommy$0246430 712 02$aEurAsian Project on Population and Family History. 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827742203321 996 $aLife under pressure$93950306 997 $aUNINA