Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time

Series · 12

books · 1780-2004

By Floud/Wachter/Gregory, Sheilagh Ogilvie, James Z. Lee, and more

Books in series

Land, Kinship and Life-Cycle

1984

These essays in Land, Kinship and Life-Cycle present detailed case studies from English rural communities over the period 1250–1850, these essays reveal that much land was transferred between living persons who were related neither by blood nor by marriage and that kin were often not the only members of work groups or assistance networks in the countryside. Although the focus is on the strata of English society below the landed aristocracy and the urban merchant elites, the preoccupation with those holding land whether under freehold or customary or copyhold tenure is tempered by essays that investigate the economic problems in the lifecycles of the property less or those unable through, for example, illness or age to work and manage their property.

Annals of the Labouring Poor

Social Change and Agrarian England, 1660–1900

1985

This collection of inter-connected essays is concerned with the impact of social and economic change upon the rural labouring poor and artisans in England, and combines a sensitive understanding of their social priorities with innovative quantitative analysis. It is based on an impressive range of sources, and its particular significance arises from the pioneering use made of a largely neglected archival source - settlement records - to address questions of central importance in English social and economic history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Levels of employment, wage rates, poor relief, the sexual division of labour, the social consequences of enclosure, the decline of farm service and traditional apprenticeship, and th equality of family life are amongst the issues discussed in a profound re-assessment of a perennial the standard of living (in its widest sense) of the labouring poor during the period of industrialisation. The author's conclusions challenge much of the prevailing orthodoxy, and his extensive use of literary and attitudinal material is closely integrated with the quantitative restatement of an interpretation that owes much to the older tradition of the Hammonds' Village Labourer.

Scottish Literacy and the Scottish Identity

Illiteracy and Society in Scotland and Northern England, 1600–1800

1985

Scottish education and literacy have achieved a legendary status. A campaign promoted by church and state between 1560 and 1696 is said to have produced the most literate population in the early modern world. This book sets out to test this belief by comparing the ability to read and write in Scotland with northern England in particular and with Europe and North America in general. It combines extensive statistical analysis with qualitative and theoretical discussion to produce an important argument about the significance of literacy and education for the individual and society of relevance not just to the Scottish experience but to a far broader social and geographical area.

Neighbourhood and Society

1987

This book is a pioneering social and economic study of a London suburban parish in the seventeenth century, which sheds new light on the important but relatively neglected topic of 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 inhabitants of the district in local government and church ceremonial. Throughout, social and economic features of the neighbourhood are compared to those found elsewhere in London, and in other towns and cities, in early modern England. The book will therefore be of interest to all concerned with the behaviour of the town dweller in the past, and will serve as a springboard for further historical studies of urban society.

Upland Communities

Environment, Population and Social Structure in the Alps since the Sixteenth Century

1989

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. The book therefore deals at length with such problems as the causes and consequences of emigration and patterns of marriage and inheritance in favouring or hampering the adjustments of local populations to changing economic or ecological circumstances, and tackles the vexed question of the relative importance of cultural and environmental factors in shaping family forms and community structures. Although its foundation lies in a long period of anthropological fieldwork conducted in an Alpine community, Upland Communities relies on the methods and conceptual tools of historical demography. Combined with a long-term historical perspective, its broad comparative approach unveils an unexpected diversity in regional and spatial demographic patterns and questions a number of deep-rooted but ultimately misleading notions concerning mountain society and its alleged backwardness in the past.

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Height, Health and History

1780

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.

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Patriarchy, Property and Death in the Roman Family

1994

The Roman father has traditionally provided the pattern of patriarchy in European thought. This book shows how the social realities and cultural representations diverged from this paradigm. Demographic analysis and computer simulation demonstrate that before adulthood most Romans lost their fathers by death. Close reading of Latin texts reveals Roman fathers as devoted and loving, and not harsh, exploitative masters of slaves. The demographic and cultural contexts deepen our understanding of how the patrimony was transmitted.

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Fate and Fortune in Rural China

Social Organization and Population Behavior in Liaoning 1774–1873

1997

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. Lee and Campbell demonstrate the interaction between demographic and other social pressures, and illustrate graphically the nature of social mobility and social organization in rural China during the century from 1774SH1873. Their conclusion—that social norms, rooted in ideology, determined demographic performance—is supported by a mass of hitherto inaccessible primary data.

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State Corporatism and Proto-Industry

The Württemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797

1997

State Corporatism and Proto-Industry focuses on the WÜrttemberg worsted industry, an example of a "proto-industry" that arose in many parts of Europe preceding factory industrialization. It has been argued that these proto-industries broke down traditional society but this book suggests otherwise. With the help of the state, corporate institutions such as merchant companies and rural guilds, regulated every aspect of rural life and thus profoundly shaped early modern European economic, demographic and social development.

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The Demography of Victorian England and Wales

1996

The Demography of Victorian England and Wales describes in detail for the first time the changing population history of England and Wales between 1837 and 1914. Its principal focus is the great demographic revolution that occurred during those years, especially the secular decline of fertility and the origins of the modern rise in life expectancy. It is lavishly illustrated with numerous tables, figures and maps, many of which are reproduced in full color. This clear, comprehensive and engaging reference work makes a seminal contribution to demographic history.

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Changing Family Size in England and Wales

Place, Class and Demography, 1891-1911

1997

This volume is an important study in demographic history. Garrett, Reid, SchÜrer and Szreter use techniques and approaches drawn from demography, history and geography to explore the conditions under which declines in both infant mortality and fertility within marriage occurred in England and Wales between 1891 and 1911. Extensive use is made of previously unavailable census data drawn from thirteen communities in England and Wales, particularly those from the 1911 "fertility" census. The book's sometimes surprising conclusions will be of interest to all historians of Britain and of demography.

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The Decline of Life

Old Age in Eighteenth-Century England

2004

Susannah Ottaway combines a comprehensive survey of existing literature on the history of ageing with original interpretation and analysis of available data. Using a wide variety of sources (literature, correspondence, poor house and workhouse documents and diaries), Ottaway's account of the experiences of the aged reveals attitudes in eighteenth-century England that shed light on contemporary aging issues by historical comparison.

Authors

Floud/Wachter/Gregory

Author · 1 books

Sheilagh Ogilvie

Author · 3 books

Sheilagh Ogilvie is professor of economic history at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of the British Academy.

Eilidh Garrett BSc PhD is a CAMPOP Affiliated Researcher, the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Dr Garrett is a historical demographer working on the demography of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Britain. Research: Nineteenth and early twentieth century demography of the British Isles, particularly fertility behaviour and mortality decline, with a growing interest in the impact of migration flows on demographic rates. I have worked in close collaboration with members of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure and the History Faculty over many years, considering the demography of Victorian Scotland, with Alice Reid and Ros Davies, the demography of Edwardian England and Wales with Kevin Schurer, Alice Reid, Richard Wall and Simon Szreter, and exploring the factors underlying infant mortality Belfast during the first decade of the twentieth century with Alice Reid and Simon Szreter. Our work on Scotland was undertaken in collaboration with Prof. Andrew Blaikie, Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen. I also worked with Dr. Peter Razzell, University of Essex, on an ESRC funded project linking late nineteenth century census material to the vaccination birth and death registers for the town of Ipswich. For a number of years I have been a contributor to the Digitising Scotland project, now based at the University of Edinburgh. Since 2015 I have been working for the University of Essex on the Atlas of Victorian Fertility Project, based at the Cambridge Group My research has involved extensive transcription, cleaning, coding, linkage and analysis of individual level census and civil register material along with other late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century sources.

Kevin Schürer

Author · 1 books

Kevin Schürer FAcSS FRGS (born 22 June 1957) is a British historian, genealogist and statistician, previously Pro-Vice Chancellor of Research and Enterprise, who teaches at the University of Leicester. He specialises in the historical demography, the history of the family and migration in nineteenth-century England and Wales.

Simon Szreter

Author · 2 books

Simon Szreter is Professor of History and Public Policy at St John's College, Cambridge, England. Research Interests History and Public Policy, especially in relation to comparative demographic, social and economic change. Current research includes the study of qualitative and quantitative sources on the history of fertility decline in Britain, including a new project on the venereal diseases and fertility decline; the history of mortality public health and politics; and the comparative history of identity registration systems in world history. I am a long-term honorary research associate of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure; and currently with several colleagues in the Dept of History and Philosophy of Science, Classics and Physiology, I am an award-holder of the 5-year Wellcome Strategic Award, 2009-14, to the University of Cambridge on the Theme of 'Generation to Reproduction', which has a number of funded doctoral scholarships attached to it.

Born 1955. Keith David Malcolm Snell, FRAI, is an Anglo-Welsh academic historian who holds a personal chair as Professor of Rural and Cultural History at the University of Leicester. He was born in Tanganyika (now Tanzania), and brought up in rural Wales and many tropical African countries, notably Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, the Congo, and Nigeria. Keith Snell studied history at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) first-class degree. He remained at the University of Cambridge and, with funding from the Social Science Research Council, completed his doctoral studies at Trinity Hall as well. His Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), supervised by Professor Sir Tony Wrigley at The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, was awarded in 1979.[1] Snell was then appointed Research Fellow in the Humanities at King's College, Cambridge, 1979-1983, before taking up a lectureship in the Department of Economics and Related Studies at the University of York. Snell then moved to the University of Leicester as Lecturer in Regional Popular Cultures in the University's postgraduate Department of English Local History; he was subsequently promoted to Reader and from 2002 Professor of Rural and Cultural History.[1] He was Director of the Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester, 2009-2018, when he took early retirement. In 1991, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. He is co-founder and co-editor (from 1990) of the Cambridge University Press journal Rural History: Economy, Society and Culture. He has published over 80 academic articles and published books. abridged from Wikipedia. Year of birth from Google