Life under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900
Author
Summary, in English
The authors examine the complex relationship between human behavior and social and economic environment, analyzing age, gender, family, kinship, social class and social organization, climate, food prices, and real wages to compare mortality responses to adversity. Their research at the individual, household, and community levels challenges the previously accepted characterizations of social and economic behavior in Europe and Asia in the past. The originality of the analysis as well as the geographic breadth and historical depth of the data make Life under Pressure a significant advance in the field of historical demography. Its findings will be of interest to scholars in economics, environmental studies, demography, history, and sociology as well as the general reader interested in these subjects.
Publishing year
2004
Language
English
Document type
Book
Publisher
MIT Press
Topic
- Economic History
Keywords
- Mortalitet
- Mortality
- Levnadsstandard
- Europa
- Europe
- Asien
- Asia
- ekonomiska förhållanden
- Economic conditions
- Population
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-0-262-02551-5