Population and nutrition : an essay on European demographic history / Massimo Livi-Bacci ; translated by Tania Croft-Murray with the assistance of Carl Ipsen.
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TextSeries: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time ; 14Publication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.Description: xiv, 149 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: - 052136325X (hardback)
- 0521368715 (paperback)
- English
- 20 304.6094 LIV
- HB3581 .L58 1990
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Translation of: Popolazione e alimentazione.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-143) and index.
1. Demographic growth in Europe; 2. Energy, nutrition and survival; 3. Famine and want; 4. The starving and the well-fed; 5. Food and standard of living: hypotheses and controversies; 6. Antagonism and adaption.
Analysis of European demographic history which sheds doubts on the existence of a long term interrelation between nutritional levels and mortality, showing that the level of the latter was determined more by the epidemiological cycles than by the nutritional level of the population
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