The Population History of Britain and Ireland 1500-1750Over the past twenty years population history has become a thriving field of research. In this concise volume, Dr. Houston reviews all the recent literature and explains the different population trends evident in parts of Britain and Ireland. He sets out the sometimes complex interactions among fertility, nuptiality, morality and migration in a clear and comprehensible way, and examines a wide range of topics such as plague and smallpox, childbirth, illegitimacy, migration within Britain and emigration to America. |
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Sources and methods | 4 |
Structures and trends | 16 |
Nuptiality and fertility | 23 |
Mortality | 36 |
Migration | 47 |
Population economy and society | 56 |
Conclusion | 80 |
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adult mortality age at marriage age structure agricultural apprentices baptisms birth interval Cambridge cent changes child mortality church of Ireland Clarkson deaths Dickson disease early eighteenth century early modern Britain Economic History Society Edinburgh effect eighteenth century emigration England's population Europe Eversley family reconstitution famine female Flinn Gráda growth rates hearth tax historical demographers History of England household Houston illegitimacy industrial infant and child infant mortality Irish Quakers Kilmarnock Kussmaul labour late seventeenth century late sixteenth less London Lowlands Macafee marital fertility marriage for women mean age microsimulation Mitchison nineteenth century nuptiality and fertility Ó Gráda parish registers plague population and resources population growth population history proportion real wages regional remarriage rural Scotland Scotland and Ireland Scots Scottish servants seventeenth century sixteenth century smallpox Smout Social History Souden sources structures and trends T. C. Smout tion towns Ulster urban vital events Walter and Schofield Whyte Wrigley and Schofield
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