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Life under pressure : mortality and living standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900 / / Tommy Bengtsson, Cameron Campbell, James Z. Lee



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Titolo: Life under pressure : mortality and living standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900 / / Tommy Bengtsson, Cameron Campbell, James Z. Lee Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2009
©2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (546 p.)
Disciplina: 304.6/4/09509033
Soggetto topico: Mortality - Europe
Mortality - Asia
Soggetto geografico: Europe Population
Asia Population
Europe Economic conditions
Asia Economic conditions
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Persona (resp. second.): BengtssonTommy
CampbellCameron
LeeJames Z.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sommario/riassunto: A 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Life under pressure  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-262-29213-0
0-262-26809-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910451503703321
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Serie: MIT Press Eurasian population and family history series.