Population and Society in Western European Port Cities, c. 1650-1939
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
400 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2002
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, Malmö, 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.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
1. Port Development and the Demographic Dynamics of European Urbanization - ROBERT LEE and RICHARD LAWTON, University of Liverpool
2. Industrialization and Demographic Change: A Case Study of Glasgow, 1801-1914 - ANDREW GIBB, University of Glasgow
3. The Population Dynamics and Economic Development of Genoa, 1750-1939 - GIUSEPPI FELLONI, University of Genoa
4. The Components of Demographic Change in a Rapidly Growing Port-City: The Case of Liverpool in the Nineteenth Century - RICHARD LAWTON, University of Liverpool
5. The Mortality Development of a Port-Town in a National Perspective: The Experience of Malmö, Sweden, 1820-1914 - GUNNAR FRIDLIZIUS, University of Lund
6. Population Dynamics and Economic Change in Trieste and its Hinterland, 1850-1914 - MARINA CATTARUZZA, University of Trieste
7. The Admiralty Connection: Port Development and Demographic Change in Portsmouth, 1650-1900 - BARRY STAPLETON, University of Portsmouth
8. The Port-City Legacy: Urban Demographic Change in the Hansestadt Bremen, 1815-1910 - ROBERT LEE, University of Liverpool and PETER MARSCHALCK, University of Osnabrück
9. Changes in Population Development, Urban Structures and Living Conditions in Nineteenth-Century Hamburg - CLEMENS WISCHERMANN, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster
10. Demographic Change and Social Structure: The Workers and the Bourgeoisie in Nantes, 1830-1848 - ANGELA FAHY, Florida International University
11. Population, Society and Politics in Cork from the Late-Eighteenth Century to 1900 - JOHN B. O'BRIEN, University College Cork
Index
List of Tables
Preface
1. Port Development and the Demographic Dynamics of European Urbanization - ROBERT LEE and RICHARD LAWTON, University of Liverpool
2. Industrialization and Demographic Change: A Case Study of Glasgow, 1801-1914 - ANDREW GIBB, University of Glasgow
3. The Population Dynamics and Economic Development of Genoa, 1750-1939 - GIUSEPPI FELLONI, University of Genoa
4. The Components of Demographic Change in a Rapidly Growing Port-City: The Case of Liverpool in the Nineteenth Century - RICHARD LAWTON, University of Liverpool
5. The Mortality Development of a Port-Town in a National Perspective: The Experience of Malmö, Sweden, 1820-1914 - GUNNAR FRIDLIZIUS, University of Lund
6. Population Dynamics and Economic Change in Trieste and its Hinterland, 1850-1914 - MARINA CATTARUZZA, University of Trieste
7. The Admiralty Connection: Port Development and Demographic Change in Portsmouth, 1650-1900 - BARRY STAPLETON, University of Portsmouth
8. The Port-City Legacy: Urban Demographic Change in the Hansestadt Bremen, 1815-1910 - ROBERT LEE, University of Liverpool and PETER MARSCHALCK, University of Osnabrück
9. Changes in Population Development, Urban Structures and Living Conditions in Nineteenth-Century Hamburg - CLEMENS WISCHERMANN, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster
10. Demographic Change and Social Structure: The Workers and the Bourgeoisie in Nantes, 1830-1848 - ANGELA FAHY, Florida International University
11. Population, Society and Politics in Cork from the Late-Eighteenth Century to 1900 - JOHN B. O'BRIEN, University College Cork
Index
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