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The British Fertility Decline : Demographic Transition in the Crucible of the Industrial Revolution /

Teitelbaum, Michael S.

The British Fertility Decline : Demographic Transition in the Crucible of the Industrial Revolution / Michael S. Teitelbaum. - Course Book - 1 online resource (288 p.) - Office of Population Research ; 621 .

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Social and Economic Setting from 1750 to 1913 -- Chapter 3: Methods of Fertility Measurement -- Chapter 4: Trends in Overall Fertility, 1841-1931 -- Chapter 5: Nuptiality Components of Fertility -- Chapter 6: Marital and Extramarital Fertility -- Chapter 7: Alternative "Explanatory" Models of Marital Fertility Decline -- Chapter 8: The Social and Economic Context of Fertility Decline -- Chapter 9: Conclusions -- Appendix: Two Sets of County Boundaries, and Erroneous Figures for County Vital Rates in Nineteenth-Century Ireland -- Bibliography -- Index

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Building on the theory of the demographic transition, Michael S. Teitelbaum assesses the dramatic decline in British fertility from 1841 to 1931 in terms of social transformations associated with the Industrial Revolution. His book is an intensive analysis of the British case at both county and national levels.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.




Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780691612256 9781400857159

10.1515/9781400857159 doi


Demographic transition--History.--Great Britain
Fertility, Human--History.--Great Britain
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Demography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography.

304.6/32/0941