Life under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900

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Tommy Bengtsson (Professor of Demography and Economic History, Lund University) Cameron Campbell (UCLA)

Life under Pressure

Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900

Tommy Bengtsson (Professor of Demography and Economic History, Lund University), Cameron Campbell (UCLA), James Z. Lee (Professor and Dean, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) , James Z. Lee (Professor and Dean, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

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MIT Press
23 January 2009

Social & cultural history; Population & demography

Series: Eurasian Population and Family History

A pioneering work in comparative history and social science that compares population behavior in response to adversity in Europe and Asia.

This highly original book-the first in a series analyzing historical population behavior in Europe and Asia-pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using techniques of event history analysis, the authors examine 100,000 life histories in 100 rural communities in Western Europe and Asia to analyze the demographic response to social and economic pressures. In doing so they challenge the accepted Eurocentric Malthusian view of population processes and demonstrate that population behavior has not been as uniform as previously thought-that it has often been determined by human agency, particularly social structure and cultural practice.

The authors examine the complex relationship between human behavior and social and economic environment, analyzing age, gender, family, kinship, social class and social organization, climate, food prices, and real wages to compare mortality responses to adversity. Their research at the individual, household, and community levels challenges the previously accepted characterizations of social and economic behavior in Europe and Asia in the past. The originality of the analysis as well as the geographic breadth and historical depth of the data make Life Under Pressure a significant advance in the field of historical demography. Its findings will be of interest to scholars in economics, environmental studies, demography, history, and sociology as well as the general reader interested in these subjects.

By: Tommy Bengtsson (Professor of Demography and Economic History Lund University), Cameron Campbell (UCLA), James Z. Lee (Professor and Dean, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Series edited by: James Z. Lee (Professor and Dean Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Tommy Bengtsson (Professor of Demography and Economic History, Lund University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 726g
ISBN: 9780262512435
ISBN 10: 0262512432
Series: Eurasian Population and Family History
Pages: 546
Publication Date: 23 January 2009
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Adult education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Inactive

Tommy Bengtsson is Professor of Economic History and Demography, Department of Economic History, Lund University, Sweden. Cameron Campbell is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. James Z. Lee is Professor and Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Reviews for Life under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900

A major milestone in preindustrial population history. -Choice The book is amazingly rich and fascinating and represents a major advance in historical demography in data collection, theory, and methods. -Ronald Lee and Richard H. Steckel, Historical Methods