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. The measurement of height is a means of the direct assessment of nutritional status. This important and innovative study uses a wealth of military and philanthropic data to establish the changing heights of Britons during the period of industrialization, and thus establishes an important dimension to the long-standing controversy about living standards during the Industrial Revolution. Sophisticated quantitative analysis enables the authors to present some striking conclusions about the actual physical status of the British people during a period of profound social and economic upheaval, and Height, Health and History will provide an invigorating statistical edge to many debates about the history of the human body itself.
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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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great height leap, military height standard, bend estimator, minimum height standards, offer bias, recruiting statistics, average nutritional status, anthropometric history, occupational differentials, recruitment data, baseline category, military samples, living debate, school medical officers, improved nutritional status, anthropometric indices, height differentials, human biologists, height data, regional differentials, geographical groups, height growth, likelihood calculations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Marine Society, Army Medical Department, Description Books, Royal Marines, British Association, Industrial Revolution, Royal Military Academy, United States, Napoleonic Wars, Second World War, First World War, Public Record Office, Inter-Departmental Committee, British Isles, Effectives Recruits Dead Deserted Discharged, Francis Galton, International Biological Programme, Age Figure, Christ's Hospital, Date Establishment Effectives Difference, Height Age, Inspector-General of Recruiting, Queen Victoria, Boyd Orr, Charles Booth New!
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great height leap, military height standard, bend estimator, minimum height standards, offer bias, recruiting statistics, average nutritional status, anthropometric history, occupational differentials, recruitment data, baseline category, military samples, living debate, school medical officers, improved nutritional status, anthropometric indices, height differentials, human biologists, height data, regional differentials, geographical groups, height growth, likelihood calculations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Marine Society, Army Medical Department, Description Books, Royal Marines, British Association, Industrial Revolution, Royal Military Academy, United States, Napoleonic Wars, Second World War, First World War, Public Record Office, Inter-Departmental Committee, British Isles, Effectives Recruits Dead Deserted Discharged, Francis Galton, International Biological Programme, Age Figure, Christ's Hospital, Date Establishment Effectives Difference, Height Age, Inspector-General of Recruiting, Queen Victoria, Boyd Orr, Charles Booth New!
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- Miniset B. Economic History (Routledge Library Editions: The Economics) by G.C. Allen in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Industrial Revolution by Dave Thompson on page 277, and Back Matter
- Human Biology by British Museum in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Human Biology by J Roberts in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Human Biology by Jane B. Taylor in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Time and Work in England 1750-1830 (Oxford Historical Monographs) by Hans-Joachim Voth on 4 pages
- Eighteenth-Century English Society: Shuttles and Swords (Opus Books) by Douglas Hay in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The British Isles and the War of American Independence by Stephen Conway on page 29, and page 191
- The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC to AD 1800 by Lawrence I. Conrad in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Individuals, Families, and Communities in Europe, 1200-1800: The Urban Foundations of Western Society (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time) by Katherine A. Lynch in Back Matter
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