Height, Health and History

Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750–1980

Roderick Floud, Kenneth Wachter, Annabel Gregory (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

380 Seiten

1990
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-30314-9 (ISBN)

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In historical accounts of the circumstances of ordinary people's lives, nutrition has been the great unknown. Nearly impossible to measure or assess directly, it has nonetheless been held responsible for the declining mortality rates of the nineteenth century as well as being a major factor in the gap in living standards, morbidity and mortality between rich and poor. The measurement of height is a means of the direct assessment of nutritional status. This important and innovative study uses a wealth of military and philanthropic data to establish the changing heights of Britons during the period of industrialization, and thus establishes an important dimension to the long-standing controversy about living standards during the Industrial Revolution. Sophisticated quantitative analysis enables the authors to present some striking conclusions about the actual physical status of the British people during a period of profound social and economic upheaval, and Height, Health and History will provide an invigorating statistical edge to many debates about the history of the human body itself.

List of figures; List of tables; Preface; 1. Height, nutritional status and the historical record; 2. Inference from military height data; 3. Inference from samples of military records; 4. Long-term trends in nutritional status; 5. Regional and occupational differentials in British heights; 6. Height, nutritional status and the environment; 7. Nutritional status and physical growth in Britain, 1750–1980; 8. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.10.1990
Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 236 mm
Gewicht	753 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-521-30314-1 / 0521303141
ISBN-13	978-0-521-30314-9 / 9780521303149
Zustand	Neuware