Height, Health and History: Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750–1980: 9 (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, Series Number 9) - Hardcover

Floud, Roderick; Wachter, Kenneth; Gregory, Annabel

 
9780521303149: Height, Health and History: Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750–1980: 9 (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, Series Number 9)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521303141 ISBN 13: 9780521303149
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Synopsis

Height, Health and History provides an invigorating statistical edge to many debates about the history of the human body itself.

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Book Description

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.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1990
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521303141
ISBN 13 
9780521303149
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
380