Life Under Pressure
Subtitle: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900 (Eurasian Population and Family History)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: April 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 545
ISBN-13: 9780262025515
Subjects: Population & demography; Social Science; Economic conditions; Business/Economics; Sociology; Research; Europe; Demography; Economic History; Asia; Mortality; Population
First sentence: With the publication of An Essay on the Principle of Population in 1798 and his expanded second edition in 1803, Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) focused scholarly and popular attention on the comparative poverty of much of human history and the importance of differential demographic processes in determining both population size and living standards.