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The British Fertility Decline : Demographic Transition in the Crucible of the Industrial Revolution / Michael S. Teitelbaum.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Office of Population Research ; 621Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1984Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691612256
  • 9781400857159
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.6/32/0941
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.

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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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