Description: This is a book about the population of London during the early modern period and a detailed book about the population of a European metropolitan city at that time. Much is now known about the historical demography of rural England, but very little is understood about the larger towns and cities. Roger Finlay applies new techniques in historical demography, principally family reconstitution and aggregative analysis of parish registers, to study the growth of population in London. He shows that parish registers are as reliable for the analysis of population trends in London as in rural England. The death rate was much higher in London than in the countryside, and this difference was not offset by a markedly higher birth rate, so the population would have declined but for migration. There were striking variations in both fertility and mortality between contrasting social areas of London.
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EAN: 9780521103145
UPC: 9780521103145
ISBN: 9780521103145
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Item Length: 22.9 cm
Book Title: Population and Metropolis: the Demography of London 1580-1650
Item Height: 229mm
Item Width: 152mm
Author: Roger Finlay
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Geography & Geosciences
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2009
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 310g
Number of Pages: 204 Pages
