The biological standard of living in Europe and America, 1700-1900 : studies in anthropometric history
著者
書誌事項
The biological standard of living in Europe and America, 1700-1900 : studies in anthropometric history
(Collected studies series, CS508)
Variorum , Ashgate, 1995
大学図書館所蔵 全13件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
One can think of the average height reached at a particular age by individuals as the historical record of their nutritional experience. Medical research has confirmed that nutritional status - and thus physical stature - is related to food consumption and therefore to family income, and therefore to wages and to prices and therefore to the standard of living. Thus, height can be used as a proxy for these economic variables, even if it is also affected by the population's degree of urbanization and disease experience. Why should we be interested in this line of research? For example, anthropometric research can illuminate the well-being of some members of a society: women, children, aristocrats, subsistence farmers, and slaves, for whom market wages are seldom available. In addition, it has been shown that the biological standard of living can diverge from conventional indicators of well-being during the early stages of industrialization. The essays in this volume explore the well-being of diverse populations in Europe and America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Trends and cycles in height are explored among slaves, indentured servants, students in the West Point Military Academy, in the A0/00cole Polytechnique (Paris), in The Citadel (Charleston, South Carolina), Carlschule (Stuttgart) as well as in the British and in the Austrian Army.
目次
- Contents: Anthropometric history: what is it?
- On the significance of anthropometric history
- Estimating trends in historical heights
- The nutritional status of French students
- A Malthusian episode revisited: the height of British and Irish servants in colonial America
- The secular trend in the biological standard of living in the United Kingdom, 1730-1860
- Further thoughts on the nutritional status of the British population
- The growth of boys in the Stuttgart Carlschuhe, 1771-93
- The standard of living of Jews in Austria-Hungary: the anthropometric evidence, 1860-1920
- The age at menarche in Vienna: the relationship between nutrition and fertility
- Patterns of children's growth in East-Central Europe in the 18th century
- Stature and nutrition in the Habsburg monarchy: the standard of living and economic development in the 18th century
- The height and weight of West Point cadets: dietary change in antebellum America
- Nutrition and economic development in post-reconstruction South Carolina
- Toward an anthropometric history of African-Americans: the case of the free blacks in antebellum Maryland
- The height of runaway slaves in colonial America, 1720-1770
- Index.
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