Since the pioneering study of Le Roy Ladurie and his team, the idea that mean height can be considered as a reliable … indicator of the standard of living has emerged from a long debate among historians and economists. Considering height in this … identify those factors that compensated for this urban penalty-that were positively correlated with height: nutritional …

Examines the height of runaway indentured and convict servants in Colonial America. Finds that heights decreased …

The height of the French male population of the Ancien Régime is estimated, on the basis of military records, to have …, which clearly fuelled the fires of revolution. The height of the French upper classes was 7 cm above average, but, that, too …

Early Nineteenth century. Concludes that their height was some 7 cm greater than that of average French youth their age. …

Nineteenth century. Concludes that their height was some 7 cm greater than that of average French youth their age. …

We present evidence on the 19th-century trend in the height of male US passport applicants. These men represent a much … wealthier segment of contemporary society than found in most stature samples previously analyzed. The height trend among the … increase in the ‘height gap’—by roughly 1in. between cohorts born around 1820 and 1860—is in congruence with evidence on rising …

We estimate the height of various European populations in the first half of the 18th century. English and Irish male … and convict servants in colonial North America, whose height is estimated as between 66.4 and 67.0 inches (168,7 and 170 … height distribution in this period. The English were about as tall as Bohemians and French, but shorter than the Irish and …

North American counterparts. The height gap between the rich and poor was the greatest in England, reaching 22 cm at age 16 … discovered, while the English rich were the tallest in their time: only 2.5 cm shorter than today’s US standards. Height of the … the height of the wealthy tended rather to increase until the 1840s and then levelled off. …

We estimate the height of various European populations in the first half of the 18th century. English and Irish male … and convict servants in colonial North America, whose height is estimated as between 66.4 and 67.0 inches (168,7 and 170 … height distribution in this period. The English were about as tall as Bohemians and French, but shorter than the Irish and …