Population and society in western European port cities, c.1650-1939
By: edited by Richard Lawton and Robert Lee.
Contributors: Lawton, Richard.; Lee, W. Robert.
Series: Liverpool studies in European population ;; 2
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Liverpool
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
Subjects: Urbanization -- Europe, Western -- History.; Cities and towns -- Europe, Western -- Growth.; Port districts -- Europe, Western -- History.; Demography -- Europe, Western.; Europe, Western -- Population.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Port development and the demographic dynamics of European urbanization -- Robert Lee, Richard Lawton; title: Industrialization and demographic change: a case study of Glasgow, 1801-1914 -- Andrew Gibb; title: Population dynamics and economic development of Genoa, 1750-1939 -- Giuseppi Felloni; title: Components of demographic change in a rapidly growing port-city: the case of Liverpool in the nineteenth century -- Richard Lawton; title: Mortality development of a port-town in a national perpective: the experience of Malmö, Sweden, 1820-1914 -- Gunnar Fridlizius; title: Population dynamics and economic change in Trieste and its hinterland, 1850-1914 -- Marina Cattaruzza; title: Admirality connection: port development and demographic change in Portsmouth, 1650-1900 -- Barry Stapleton; title: Port-city legacy: urban demographic change in the Hansestadt Bremen, 1815-1910 -- Robert Lee, Peter Marschalck; title: Changes in population development, urban structures and living conditions in nineteenth-century Hamburg -- Clemens Wischermann; title: Demographic change and social structure: the workers and the bourgeoisie in Nantes, 1830-1848 -- Angela Fahy; title: Population, society and politics in Cork from the late-eighteenth century to 1900 -- John B. O'Brien