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The Escape From Hunger And Premature Death, 1700â€“2100 - Europe, America, And The Third World

de Robert William (University Of Chicago) Fogel

33,80€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A compelling study from Nobel laureate Robert Fogel, first published in 2004, which examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. It will be essential reading for all those interested in economics, demography, history and health care policy.
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Escape From Hunger And Premature Death, 1700-2100 - Europe, America, And The Third World

de Robert William Fogel

33,13€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A compelling study from Nobel laureate Robert Fogel, first published in 2004, which examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. It will be essential reading for all those interested in economics, demography, history and health care policy.
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Town And Country In Pre-Industrial Spain - Cuenca, 1540â€“1870

de David Reher

52,72€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This 1990 study of a hilltop town on the Castilian Meseta analyses its socio-economic structures in the context of the urbanisation of rural Spain, and shows how the history of the town is paradigmatic of the social, economic and demographic changes in urban areas of the Mediterranean basin.
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Famine And Death In Occupied Greece, 1941â€“1944

de Violetta (Lecturer, University Of Newcastle Upon Tyne) Hionidou

50,02€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A pioneering 2006 study of the impact of the famine that occurred in Greece during its occupation by German and Italian forces in 1941 and 1942. Violetta Hionidou examines the politics of this food crisis, focusing on the demography of the famine and the effectiveness of the relief operations.
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The Decline Of Life - Old Age In Eighteenth-Century England

de Susannah R. (Carleton College, Minnesota) Ottaway

133,84€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This is an important study of the history of ageing. Ottaway combines a comprehensive survey of existing literature with original interpretation and analysis of available data, using a wide variety of sources. Her lively and sophisticated analysis will be of great interest to scholars in British and social history.
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Ecology, Economy And State Formation In Early Modern Germany

de Paul (University Of Cambridge) Warde

59,48€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This is an original case study of how a peasant society in early modern Europe sustained its economy, which relied on natural resources. It offers a study of south-west Germany's dependence on wood, demonstrating the stability of the economy and social structure through periods of demographic pressure, warfare and epidemic.
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The Demography Of Victorian England And Wales

de Robert (University Of Liverpool) Woods

120,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Robert Woods describes in detail the changing population history of England and Wales between 1837 and 1914, focusing on the great demographic revolution which occurred during those years. This reference book is lavishly illustrated, clearly written, and comprehensive in coverage: it makes a seminal contribution to demographic history.
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A Rural Society After The Black Death - Essex 1350â€“1525

de L. R. (Catholic University Of America, Washington Dc) Poos

59,48€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This is a study of rural social structure in the county of Essex between 1350 and 1500.
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Population And Nutrition - An Essay On European Demographic History

de Massimo (Universita Degli Studi Di Firenze, Italy) Livi-Bacci

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 From the time of Malthus, the insufficient supply of food resources has been considered the main constraint of population growth and the main factor in the high mortality prevailing in pre-industrial times. In this essay, the mechanisms of biological, social and cultural nature linking subsistence, mortality and population and determining its short and long-term cycles are discussed.
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Height, Health And History - Nutritional Status In The United Kingdom, 1750â€“1980

de Annabel (Dr) Gregory, Kenneth Wachter e Roderick (Provost) Floud

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 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.
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Famine, Disease And The Social Order In Early Modern Society

39,20€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Although Western societies cannot escape from images of famine in the present world, their direct experience of widespread hunger has receded into the past. England was one of the very first countries to escape from the shadow of famine; in this volume a team of distinguished economic, social and demographic historians analyses why.
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Transforming English Rural Society - The Verneys And The Claydons, 1600â€“1820

de John (London Metropolitan University) Broad

73,00€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 John Broad explores the rise and fall of the Verney family of Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire. He shows how the family were impelled by a strong dynastic imperative, how they managed their estates to maximize income and transformed three local villages into 'open' and 'closed' parishes.
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The Decline Of Life - Old Age In Eighteenth-Century England

de Susannah R. (Carleton College, Minnesota) Ottaway

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 This is an important study of the history of ageing. Ottaway combines a comprehensive survey of existing literature with original interpretation and analysis of available data, using a wide variety of sources. Her lively and sophisticated analysis will be of great interest to scholars in British and social history.
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Fate And Fortune In Rural China - Social Organization And Population Behavior In Liaoning 1774â€“1873

de Cameron D. Campbell e James Z. (California Institute Of Technology) Lee

73,00€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Fate and Fortune in Rural China is a major contribution to the study of both the social and population history of late traditional China, and that of historical demography in general. The fundamental conclusion is that social norms, rooted in ideology, determined demographic performance.
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Ecology, Economy And State Formation In Early Modern Germany

de Paul (University Of Cambridge) Warde

154,11€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 This is an original case study of how a peasant society in early modern Europe sustained its economy, which relied on natural resources. It offers a study of south-west Germany's dependence on wood, demonstrating the stability of the economy and social structure through periods of demographic pressure, warfare and epidemic.
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Upland Communities - Environment, Population And Social Structure In The Alps Since The Sixteenth Century

de Pier Paolo Viazzo

64,89€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book follows the social, economic and demographic transformations of the Alpine area from the late Middle Ages. Its aim is to reassess the image of the upland community which emerges from the work of historians, geographers and social anthropologists.
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Death And The Metropolis - Studies In The Demographic History Of London, 1670â€“1830

de John Landers

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A powerful analysis of demographic patterns in London over the 'long eighteenth century', concentrating on mortality but also including data on marital fertility, population structure and migration. The evidence indicates that mortality in London was generally much higher than in other settlements in England.
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Medical Lives In The Age Of Surgical Revolution

de M. Anne (University Of Glasgow) Crowther e Marguerite W. (University Of Glasgow) Dupree

154,11€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 An unusual history of doctors trained in Britain in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and their careers in Britain and the Empire. In this book, Crowther and Dupree describe the experience of a whole generation of doctors at a time of rapid changes in medical knowledge.
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A Stagnating Metropolis - The Economy And Demography Of Stockholm, 1750â€“1850

de Christer Persson, Johan Soderberg e Ulf Jonsson

50,02€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book analyses a peculiar phase in the history of Stockholm which has not previously been systematically investigated. Between 1750 and 1850 the Swedish capital experienced long-term stagnation, characterized by de-industrialization and slow population growth.
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Migration In A Mature Economy - Emigration And Internal Migration In England And Wales 1861â€“1900

de Dudley Baines

63,54€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In this study Mr Baines has devised a method of estimating the county of birth of all permanent emigrants from England and Wales in the last four decades of the nineteenth century - some 2.3 million people.
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Making A Medical Living - Doctors And Patients In The English Market For Medicine, 1720â€“1911

de Anne Digby

39,20€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Making a Medical Living explores the neglected socio-economic history of medical practice, beginning with the first voluntary hospital in 1720 and ending with national health insurance in 1911. It looks at public appointments in hospitals and dispensaries, office under public welfare systems, and at private practice.
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Dictating Demography - The Problem Of Population In Fascist Italy

de Carl (Indiana University) Ipsen

50,02€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book examines the demographic policy of Mussolini's Fascist regime, including campaigns to increase the birth rate, the establishment of demographic colonies, and a battle against urbanisation.
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Istanbul Households - Marriage, Family And Fertility, 1880â€“1940

de Alan Duben e Cem Behar

66,24€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Istanbul Households is a social history of marriage, the family and population in Istanbul during the turbulent period of transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It combines the methods and approaches of social anthropology, historical demography and social history.
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Neighbourhood And Society: A London Suburb In The Seventeenth Century - A London Suburb In The Seventeenth Century

de Jeremy Boulton

39,20€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A pioneering social and economic study, which sheds new light on London's social history. Chapters on demography, social and occupational structure, topography, population turnover and residential mobility, and neighbourly relations, lead to a discussion of the involvement of the district's inhabitants in local government and church ceremonial.
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