Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time

This is an important study of the history of ageing. Ottaway combines a comprehensive survey of existing literature with original interpretation and analysis of available data, using a wide variety of sources. Her lively and sophisticated analysis will be of great interest to scholars in British and social history.

An unusual history of doctors trained in Britain in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and their careers in Britain and the Empire. In this book, Crowther and Dupree describe the experience of a whole generation of doctors at a time of rapid changes in medical knowledge.

This is an original case study of how a peasant society in early modern Europe sustained its economy, which relied on natural resources. It offers a study of south-west Germany's dependence on wood, demonstrating the stability of the economy and social structure through periods of demographic pressure, warfare and epidemic.

A pioneering 2006 study of the impact of the famine that occurred in Greece during its occupation by German and Italian forces in 1941 and 1942. Violetta Hionidou examines the politics of this food crisis, focusing on the demography of the famine and the effectiveness of the relief operations.

John Broad explores the rise and fall of the Verney family of Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire. He shows how the family were impelled by a strong dynastic imperative, how they managed their estates to maximize income and transformed three local villages into 'open' and 'closed' parishes.

Using data from 26 Anglican parish registers between the sixteenth and mid-nineteenth century, this book demonstrates the value of the technique of family reconstitution as a means of obtaining accurate and detailed information about fertility, morality, and nuptiality in the past.

This book examines the demographic policy of Mussolini's Fascist regime, including campaigns to increase the birth rate, the establishment of demographic colonies, and a battle against urbanisation.

Istanbul Households is a social history of marriage, the family and population in Istanbul during the turbulent period of transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It combines the methods and approaches of social anthropology, historical demography and social history.

This book analyses a peculiar phase in the history of Stockholm which has not previously been systematically investigated. Between 1750 and 1850 the Swedish capital experienced long-term stagnation, characterized by de-industrialization and slow population growth.

This book reconstructs the demographic regime in Roman Egypt during the first three centuries AD, using as its main evidence the three hundred surviving census returns filed by ordinary declarants. The authors use modern demographic methods and models to reconstruct the patterns of mortality, marriage, fertility and migration that are likely to have prevailed in Roman Egypt.

State Corporatism and Proto-Industry focuses on the Wurttemberg worsted industry, an example of a 'proto-industry' which arose in many parts of Europe preceding factory industrialization. This book looks at how traditional institutions (communities, rural guilds) profoundly shaped economic development.

Making a Medical Living explores the neglected socio-economic history of medical practice, beginning with the first voluntary hospital in 1720 and ending with national health insurance in 1911. It looks at public appointments in hospitals and dispensaries, office under public welfare systems, and at private practice.

A pioneering social and economic study, which sheds new light on London's social history. Chapters on demography, social and occupational structure, topography, population turnover and residential mobility, and neighbourly relations, lead to a discussion of the involvement of the district's inhabitants in local government and church ceremonial.

Industry in the Countryside explores the nature of manufacturing before the Industrial Revolution. It is a wide ranging study of the Kentish Weald - a region where woollen textiles were produced by outworkers in their own cottages, on behalf of capitalist entrepreneurs. Zell asks the question, is there anything in the 'proto- industrialisation' model?

In this study Mr Baines has devised a method of estimating the county of birth of all permanent emigrants from England and Wales in the last four decades of the nineteenth century - some 2.3 million people.

This 1996 book uses a local study to explore some of the more significant societal changes of the modern western world. Drawing on a range of research techniques, it examines topics such as marriage, fertility, health, the work of women and children, illegitimacy and sexuality, and in so doing presents an exciting example of the 'new rural history'.

This book examines the dramatic fall in family size in Britain between 1860 and 1940. It overturns current thinking and presents new and surprising findings about the importance of sexual abstinence and widely spaced births.

In this book, two distinguished historians join forces to exploit the exceptional riches offered by the British and Irish Quakers for the student of social, demographic, and familial change during the period 1650-1900. The authors have analysed the experiences of more than 8,000 Quaker families, involving over 30,000 individuals.

This 1997 book provides a geographical, demographic and epidemiological study of disease and mortality in early modern England. Using a wide range of sources, the author examines the dramatic variations in death rates and disease patterns across the English countryside, and in so doing gives the first detailed account of the history of malaria in England.

In this book, Katherine Lynch discusses the place of the family in society from the late middle ages to the industrial period. She explores the family's function as an organization on the boundary between public and private life, and how this has been shaped by political, religious and demographic factors.

A compelling study from Nobel laureate Robert Fogel, first published in 2004, which examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. It will be essential reading for all those interested in economics, demography, history and health care policy.

This study redresses the North and South imbalance of much work in economic and social history by focusing on the impact of the building trade. The period 1450-1750 witnessed substantial changes in agriculture, industry, and population. Using local archives, the author addresses conditions of work, wages, gender differences, and relationships with employers.

Prior to the mid nineteenth century London experienced mainly indirect effects of the industrial revolution but it was, nonetheless, susceptible to many of the wider economic transformations that occured during the period 1700-1850. This book provides a detailed analysis of the changes to the economy and social structure of London during this time.

A campaign promoted by church and state between 1560 and 1696 is said to have produced in Scotland the most literate population in the early modern world. This book sets out to test this belief by comparing the ability to read and write in Scotland with northern England in particular and with Europe and North America in general.

This book follows the social, economic and demographic transformations of the Alpine area from the late Middle Ages. Its aim is to reassess the image of the upland community which emerges from the work of historians, geographers and social anthropologists.

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 evidence indicates that mortality in London was generally much higher than in other settlements in England.

Through an examination of 255 places in England, Professor McIntosh challenges many historical assumptions to demonstrate that concern with wrongdoing mounted gradually between 1370 and 1600. This important study describes how English people defined and attempted to control misbehaviour during the later medieval and early modern periods.

The sequel to McIntosh's acclaimed work Autonomy and Community: The Royal Manor of Havering, 1200-1500.

This book provides a detailed examination of the demographic behavior of families during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a sample of fourteen villages in five different regions of Germany. It is based on the reconstituted family histories of vital events (births, deaths and marriages) compiled by genealogies for the entire populations of these villages.

This book examines the effects of nineteenth-century industrialisation on family life, based on the Dutch experience. Dr Janssens uses a quantitative approach and her subsequent critical analysis confidently revises traditionally dominant theories.