UID:
almafu_9960119352102883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xxi, 354 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780511983245 (electronic book)
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0-511-98324-7
Serie:
Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time ; 9
Inhalt:
In historical accounts of the circumstances of ordinary people's lives, nutrition has been the great unknown. Nearly impossible to measure or assess directly, it has nonetheless been held responsible for the declining mortality rates of the nineteenth century as well as being a major factor in the gap in living standards, morbidity and mortality between rich and poor. The measurement of height is a means of the direct assessment of nutritional status. This important and innovative study uses a wealth of military and philanthropic data to establish the changing heights of Britons during the period of industrialization, and thus establishes an important dimension to the long-standing controversy about living standards during the Industrial Revolution. Sophisticated quantitative analysis enables the authors to present some striking conclusions about the actual physical status of the British people during a period of profound social and economic upheaval, and Height, Health and History will provide an invigorating statistical edge to many debates about the history of the human body itself.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Height, nutritional status and the historical record -- 1.0 Introduction -- 1.1 The pattern of human growth -- 1.2 Height, nutritional status, the environment and the standard of living -- 1.3 The European background -- 1.4 The scope of this book -- Inference from military height data -- 2.0 The problem -- 2.1 Recruitment in Britain, 1700-1916 -- 2.2 Conclusion -- Inference from samples of military records -- 3.0 Introduction -- 3.1 Inference from the samples to military units -- 3.2 Who were the recruits? -- 3.3 Changes in the pool of recruits: inference from military samples to the British working class -- 3.4 Estimation of average heights from the military samples -- Appendix 3.1 The collection and processing of data -- Long-term trends in nutritional status -- 4.0 Introduction -- 4.1 Adult heights -- 4.2 The heights of children and adolescents -- 4.3 Trends in British heights -- 4.4 Conclusion -- Regional and occupational differentials in British heights -- 5.0 Introduction -- 5.1 Regional differentials in heights -- 5.2 The calculation of height differentials -- 5.3 Occupational differentials in heights -- Height, nutritional status and the environment -- 6.0 Introduction -- 6.1 Patterns of growth in childhood -- 6.2 Nutrition and growth -- 6.3 Interactions between infection, nutrition and growth -- 6.4 The application of the results of studies of the developing world to growth in industrialising Britain -- 6.5 Height and nutritional status after the cessation of growth -- 6.6 Conclusion -- Nutritional status and physical growth in Britain, 1750-1980 -- 7.0 Introduction -- 7.1 Poverty in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the 'standard of living debate' -- 7.2 Nutritional status, health and income, 1750-1850.
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7.3 Nutritional status, health and income, 1850-1914 -- 7.4 Nutritional status, health and income, 1914-1980 -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-02998-8
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-30314-1
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511983245
