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Life under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900

Life under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900

Lee, James Z.
Bengtsson, Tommy
Campbell, Cameron

Paperback

Series: Eurasian Population and Family History

EconomicsGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0262512432
ISBN13: 9780262512435
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Mar 1 2009
Pages: 546
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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.

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