New perspectives on the contribution of sanitary investments to mortality decline in English cities, 1845-1909 [0.03%]
英格兰城市卫生投资对1845-1909年死亡率下降贡献的新视角
Toke S Aidt,Romola J Davenport,Felix Gray
Toke S Aidt
Health improved in English cities in the last third of the nineteenth century, in tandem with substantial increases in public spending on water supplies and sanitation. However, previous efforts to measure the contribution of public expendi...
Living standards and the life cycle: reconstructing household income and consumption in the early twentieth-century Netherlands [0.03%]
二十世纪初期荷兰的生活水平与生命周期：重建家庭收入和消费
Corinne Boter
Corinne Boter
Conventional methods of measuring historical household living standards are often criticized because of the omission of women's and children's wages and non-wage income; the focus on urban centres; and the exclusion of life-cycle changes in...
An introduction to the history of infectious diseases, epidemics and the early phases of the long-run decline in mortality [0.03%]
传染病、流行病的历史介绍以及长期死亡率下降的早期阶段
Leigh Shaw-Taylor
Leigh Shaw-Taylor
This article, written during the COVID-19 epidemic, provides a general introduction to the long-term history of infectious diseases, epidemics and the early phases of the spectacular long-term improvements in life expectancy since 1750, pri...
Romola J Davenport
Romola J Davenport
In the long-running debate over standards of living during the industrial revolution, pessimists have identified deteriorating health conditions in towns as undermining the positive effects of rising real incomes on the 'biological standard...
Long-term trends in economic inequality: the case of the Florentine state, c. 1300-1800 [0.03%]
长期经济不平等趋势：以佛罗伦萨州（公元1300至1800年）为例
Guido Alfani,Francesco Ammannati
Guido Alfani
This article provides an overview of economic inequality, particularly of wealth, in the Florentine state (Tuscany) from the early fourteenth to the late eighteenth century. Regional studies of this kind are rare, and this is only the secon...
The 'light touch' of the Black Death in the Southern Netherlands: an urban trick? [0.03%]
南方荷兰的黑死病“轻度”流行：城市因素的作用？
Joris Roosen,Daniel R Curtis
Joris Roosen
Although the fanciful notion that the Black Death bypassed the Low Countries has long been rejected, nevertheless a persistent view remains that the Low Countries experienced only a 'light touch' of the plague when placed in a broader Europ...
Urban inoculation and the decline of smallpox mortality in eighteenth-century cities-a reply to Razzell [0.03%]
关于十八世纪城市天花死亡率下降问题的答辨——致Razzell的一封信
Romola J Davenport,Jeremy Boulton,Leonard Schwarz
Romola J Davenport
Smallpox was probably the single most lethal disease in eighteenth-century Britain but was reduced to a minor cause of death by the mid-nineteenth century due to vaccination programmes post-1798. While the success of vaccination is unquesti...
How did women count? A note on gender-specific age heaping differences in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries [0.03%]
女性如何计数？关于十六至十九世纪性别特定年龄归并差异的一点注记
Peter Földvári,Bas Van Leeuwen,Jieli Van Leeuwen-Li
Peter Földvári
The role of human capital in economic growth is now largely uncontested. One indicator of human capital frequently used for the pre-1900 period is age heaping, which has been increasingly used to measure gender-specific differences. In this...
Stephen Hipkin
Stephen Hipkin
Exploiting hitherto unexamined London port book data, this article shows that during the last quarter of the seventeenth century the coastal metropolitan corn import trade was twice the size that historians relying on the work of Gras have ...
Investigating early modern Ottoman consumer culture in the light of Bursa probate inventories [0.03%]
透过布尔萨遗嘱清单审视奥斯曼帝国早期现代消费者的文化
Eminegül Karababa
Eminegül Karababa
This study investigates the development of early modern Ottoman consumer culture. In particular, the democratization of consumption, which is a significant indicator of the development of western consumer cultures, is examined in relation t...