Between 1200 and 1520 medieval English society went through a series of upheavals: this was an age of war, pestilence and rebellion. This book explores the realities of life of the people who lived through those stirring times. It looks in turn at aristocrats, peasants, townsmen…
The Asian financial crisis in 1997-98 was a serious blow a thirty-year period of rapid growth in East and Southeast Asia. This book uses the Indonesia Family Life Surveys (IFLS) from late 1997 and late 2000 to examine changes in living standards for Indonesians from just before …
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 …
Presents an anthropometric history of Britain and Ireland over the last 250 years. Studies human growth in relation to economic history and demography during 1750-1980.
"Going against the current, this book argues that competitiveness - that is, the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector - matters to the long-term health of the U.S. economy and particularly to its long-term capacity to raise the standard of living of its citizens. The boo…
"Going against the current, this book argues that competitiveness - that is, the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector - matters to the long-term health of the U.S. economy and particularly to its long-term capacity to raise the standard of living of its citizens The book…
