Tables of Contents for British Population History

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Editor's introduction

Part I. Plague, Population, and the English Economy, 1348-1530: (i) An introduction to the controversy

(ii) Direct evidence of population change

(iii) Economic evidence of population change

(iv) Why was the population decline so protracted? (v) Population in early Tudor England

(vi) Conclusion

Bibliography John Hatcher

Part II. The Population History of Britain and Ireland, 1500-1750: Introduction

(i) Sources and methods

(ii) Structures and trends

(iii) Nuptiality and fertility

(iv) Mortality

(v) Migration

(vi) Population, economy and society

Conclusion

Bibliography R. A. Houston

Part III. Population Change in North-Western Europe, 1700-1850: (i) The problem

(ii) Sources and methods

(iii) Population change 1750-1850

(iv) Migration

(v) Natural increase

(vi) Fertility and nuptiality

(vii) Mortality

(viii) Population and resources

(ix) Economic and social implications

Bibliography Michael Anderson

Part IV. The Population of Britain in the Nineteenth Century: (i) Malthus's Britain

(ii) What do we know and how do we know it? (iii) Whether to move and where to go

(iv) Marriage

(v) How many children should we have? (vi) Mortality

(vii) 1911

Bibliography Robert Woods

Part V. British Population History, 1911-1991: Introduction

(i) Population change: trends and patterns and movement

(ii) Mortality

(iii) Fertility and nuptiality

(iv) Economic and social implications of demographic change

Bibliography Michael Anderson.