Full Description
The first single-volume demographic history of England covering the entire period since the Norman conquest. It charts the magnitude and characteristics of population change in England since the eleventh century, describes the major explanations for population change which have been proposed by historians over the years, and introduces the main historical sources which have been used to analyze the population history of England.
Contents
1 Introduction; Part 1 The Medieval Period; 2 Domesday England; 3 Population change between 1086 and the Black Death; 4 The Black Death and its aftermath; 5 The population of England in the fifteenth century; Appendix 1: Sources and methods for learning about the population of medieval England. Part II Early Modern Period; 6 The Malthusian system; 7 English mortality and population growth 1500-1750; 8 The Malthusian preventive check in early modern England; 9 Childbearing in early modern England; 10 Causes and consequences of migration; Appendix II Sources and methods for studying the population of early modern England; Part III The English demographic Transition; 11 Population growth after 1750; 12 The decline of mortality; 13 The decline of fertility; 14 Migration patterns 1800-1950; Appendix III Sources and methods for studying the population of nineteenth and early-twentieth century England
