Population and society in western European port cities, c.1650-1939 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Richard Lawton and Robert Lee

• Pubblicazione: Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (408 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.6094
• Soggetto topico: Demography - Europe; Port districts - Europe - History; Cities and towns - Europe - Growth
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: LawtonRichard <1943-> LeeWilliam R. <1932->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Population and society in western European port cities, c.1650-1939
• ISBN: 1-78138-811-3; 1-84631-383-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453165803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Liverpool studies in European population ; ; 2.