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

Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Malthus's Perspective -- 1 New Malthusian Perspectives -- I Comparative Geographies -- 2 Living Standards and Economic Stress -- 3 Economic Stress and Mortality -- 4 Family and Community -- 5 Society and Mortality -- II Local Histories -- 6 Mortality and Social Class in Four Scanian Parishes, 1766-1865 -- 7 Mortality and Modernization in Sart and Surroundings, 1812-1900 -- 8 Mortality and Environment in Three Emilian, Tuscan, and Venetian Communities, 1800-1883 -- 9 Mortality and Household in Two Ou Villages, 1716-1870 -- 10 Mortality and Household in Seven Liaodong Populations, 1749-1909 -- III Comparative Demographies -- 11 Gender Differences in Mortality -- 12 Infant and Child Mortality -- 13 Old-Age Mortality -- 14 Agency and Demography -- Appendix: Sources and Measures -- References -- Index.