The Resource Height, health and history : nutritional status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980, Roderick Floud, Kenneth Wachter, and Annabel Gregory, (electronic resource)
Height, health and history : nutritional status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980, Roderick Floud, Kenneth Wachter, and Annabel Gregory, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- 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.--
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- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxi, 354 pages)
- Isbn
- 9780511983245
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- Height, health and history : nutritional status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980
- Title
- Height, health and history
- Title remainder
- nutritional status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980
- Statement of responsibility
- Roderick Floud, Kenneth Wachter, and Annabel Gregory
- Title variation
- Height, Health & History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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.--
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- Floud, Roderick
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- Wachter, Kenneth W.
- Gregory, Annabel
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- Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time
- Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
- Series volume
- 9
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- Nutrition
- Diet
- Human growth
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- Height, health and history : nutritional status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980, Roderick Floud, Kenneth Wachter, and Annabel Gregory, (electronic resource)
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- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxi, 354 pages)
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- Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
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- 9780511983245
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- (OCoLC)1204324226
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- Height, health and history : nutritional status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980, Roderick Floud, Kenneth Wachter, and Annabel Gregory, (electronic resource)
- Carrier category
- online resource
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- cr
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- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- CR9780511983245
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxi, 354 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
- Isbn
- 9780511983245
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1204324226
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