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- catalog abstract "What can body measurements tell us about living standards in the past? In this collection of essays on height and weight data from eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe, North America, and Asia, fourteen distinguished scholars explore the relation between physical size, economic development, and standard of living among various socioeconomic groups. Analyzing differences in physical stature by social group, gender, age, provenance, and date and place of birth, these essays illuminate urban and rural differences in well-being, explore the effects of market integration on previously agricultural societies, contrast the experiences of several segments of society, and explain the proximate causes of downturns and upswings in well-being. Particularly intriguing is the researchers' conclusion that the environment of the New World during this period was far more propitious than that of Europe, based on data showing that European aristocrats were in worse health than even the poorest members of American society. The most comprehensive and detailed gathering of this kind of anthropometric research to date, this book will be vital for demographers, economists, historians, physical anthropologists, sociologists, and human biologists.".
- catalog contributor b6493822.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "Analyzing differences in physical stature by social group, gender, age, provenance, and date and place of birth, these essays illuminate urban and rural differences in well-being, explore the effects of market integration on previously agricultural societies, contrast the experiences of several segments of society, and explain the proximate causes of downturns and upswings in well-being. Particularly intriguing is the researchers' conclusion that the environment of the New World during this period was far more propitious than that of Europe, based on data showing that European aristocrats were in worse health than even the poorest members of American society. The most comprehensive and detailed gathering of this kind of anthropometric research to date, this book will be vital for demographers, economists, historians, physical anthropologists, sociologists, and human biologists.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-237) and index.".
- catalog description "The heights of europeans since 1750 / Roderick Floud -- The height of schoolchildren in Britain, 1900-1950 / Bernard Harris -- The heights of the British and the Irish c. 1800-1815 / Joel Mokyr and Cormac Ó Gráda -- The standard of living in Scotland, 1800-1850 / Paul Riggs -- Stature, welfare, and economic growth in nineteenth-century Spain / José M. Martínez Carrión -- The height of runaway slaves in Colonial America, 1720-1770 / John Komlos -- Health and nutrition in the American Midwest / Richard H. Steckel and Donald R. Haurin -- How severe was the Great Depression? Evidence from the Pittsburgh region / Jialu Wu -- Heights and health in the United States, 1710-1950 / Richard H. Steckel -- The level of living in Japan, 1885-1938 / Ted Shay -- On the significance of anthropometric history / John Komlos.".
- catalog description "What can body measurements tell us about living standards in the past? In this collection of essays on height and weight data from eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe, North America, and Asia, fourteen distinguished scholars explore the relation between physical size, economic development, and standard of living among various socioeconomic groups.".
- catalog extent "xv, 247 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0226450929 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog subject "1996 A-642".
- catalog subject "573/.6 20".
- catalog subject "Anthropometry Cross-cultural studies.".
- catalog subject "Anthropometry History.".
- catalog subject "Body Height.".
- catalog subject "Cross-Cultural Comparison.".
- catalog subject "GN 51 S797 1994".
- catalog subject "GN51 .S63 1994".
- catalog subject "Human growth Economic aspects.".
- catalog subject "Human growth Environmental aspects.".
- catalog subject "Socioeconomic Factors.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The heights of europeans since 1750 / Roderick Floud -- The height of schoolchildren in Britain, 1900-1950 / Bernard Harris -- The heights of the British and the Irish c. 1800-1815 / Joel Mokyr and Cormac Ó Gráda -- The standard of living in Scotland, 1800-1850 / Paul Riggs -- Stature, welfare, and economic growth in nineteenth-century Spain / José M. Martínez Carrión -- The height of runaway slaves in Colonial America, 1720-1770 / John Komlos -- Health and nutrition in the American Midwest / Richard H. Steckel and Donald R. Haurin -- How severe was the Great Depression? Evidence from the Pittsburgh region / Jialu Wu -- Heights and health in the United States, 1710-1950 / Richard H. Steckel -- The level of living in Japan, 1885-1938 / Ted Shay -- On the significance of anthropometric history / John Komlos.".
- catalog title "Stature, living standards, and economic development : essays in anthropometric history / edited by John Komlos.".
- catalog type "Cross-cultural studies. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".