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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 November 2011
      08 July 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511895494
      9780521355995
      9780521028547
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511895494
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.83kg, 436 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.652kg, 436 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Population History, British History after 1450, Regional and World History: General Interest, History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time (20)
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, British History after 1450, Regional and World History: General Interest, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time (20)
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    Death and the Metropolis offers a powerful analysis of demographic patterns in London over the 'long eighteenth century', concentrating on mortality but also including data on marital fertility, population structure and migration. The study is based on a variety of sources including weekly and annual Bills of Mortality, parish registers and Quaker vital registers, and employs the techniques of family reconstitution and aggregative analysis. The data are analysed within the framework of a structural model of mortality change comprising the proximate determinants of exposure to, and resistance against, infectious agents on the the part of populations. Within this framework a model is established describing the specific demographic and epidemiological characteristics of early modern metropolitan centres. The evidence indicates that mortality in London was much higher than in other settlements in England for most of the period, but declined steeply in the later eighteenth century. This apparently reflected changes in exposure to infections.

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