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4.0 out of 5 stars Good cliometric foundation for further study, January 29, 2006

By	Michael K. Smith (Gonzales, Louisiana) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This review is from: The demography of the British peerage ("Supplement to Population studies, v. 18, no. 2.")

Cliometrics reigned in university history departments in the 1960s, including detailed comparative analyses of population statistics compiled by governments. The peerage of Great Britain is an obvious target for such a study because it's well defined (by law) and extends without interruption over more than three centuries. The actual subjects here are all peers who died between 1603 and 1938 and their legitimate children - more than 26,000 individuals, plus their spouses and children. Comparisons can then be made with the general British population and with the upper classes of countries on the Continent. The monograph divides rather neatly into three sections, on marriage (social class of partner, nuptial age, divorce and remarriage), fertility (family size and replacement rates, stillbirths and childlessness), and mortality. A series of appendices discuss the quality of the printed records used and of the data itself, marriage of peers' daughters to commoners, and a number of purely statistical considerations. While the bulk of this slim volume consists of tables, charts, and mathematics, the conclusions presented are useful in pointing out the areas in which the peerage outpaced society at large, such as life expectancy, and those in which it compares closely to Britons generally -- which is the case in more areas than one might expect.