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Title Population and society in western European port cities, c.1650-1939 / edited by Richard Lawton and Robert Lee
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 385 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Liverpool studies in European population ; 2
Liverpool studies in European population ; 2.
Contents Port development and the demographic dynamics of European urbanization / Robert Lee, Richard Lawton -- Industrialization and demographic change : a case study of Glasgow, 1801-1914 / Andrew Gibb -- Population dynamics and economic development of Genoa, 1750-1939 / Giuseppi Felloni -- Components of demographic change in a rapidly growing port-city : the case of Liverpool in the nineteenth century / Richard Lawton -- Mortality development of a port-town in a national perpective : the experience of Malmö, Sweden, 1820-1914 / Gunnar Fridlizius -- Population dynamics and economic change in Trieste and its hinterland, 1850-1914 / Marina Cattaruzza -- Admirality connection : port development and demographic change in Portsmouth, 1650-1900 / Barry Stapleton -- Port-city legacy : urban demographic change in the Hansestadt Bremen, 1815-1910 / Robert Lee, Peter Marschalck -- Changes in population development, urban structures, and living conditions in nineteenth-century Hamburg / Clemens Wischermann -- Demographic change and social structure : the workers and the bourgeoisie in Nantes, 1830-1848 / Angela Fahy -- Population, society, and politics in Cork from the late-eighteenth century to 1900 / John B. O'Brien
Summary Annotation This volume brings together ten original papers on the population dynamics and development of Western European port cities. In a substantial overview chapter Lawton and Lee examine "Port Development and the Demographic Dynamics of European Urbanisation", setting in context the individual case studies that follow. These studies - of Bremen, Cork, Genoa, Glasgow, Hamburg, Liverpool, Malm, Nantes, Portsmouth and Trieste - provide an important enhancement of our understanding of the particular socio-economic and demographic characteristics of port cities, and point to the existence of a particular port demographic regime. They emphasize the central importance of the high proportion of unskilled and casual labor, the susceptibility of cyclical employment, the inflated risk of epidemic infection, and other demographic and economic factors specific to port cities
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Urbanization -- Europe, Western -- History
Port cities -- Europe, Western -- Growth
Demography -- Europe, Western
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography.
Population
Demography
Urbanization
Hafenstadt
Havensteden.
Sociale aspecten.
SUBJECT Europe, Western -- Population
Subject Western Europe
Europa
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Lawton, Richard, 1925-2010.
Lee, W. Robert.
ISBN 9781846313837
184631383X
0853234353
9780853234357