The British Fertility Decline: Demographic Transition in the Crucible of the Industrial Revolution

Michael S. Teitelbaum

Published by Princeton University Press 1984

The British Fertility Decline

Demographic Transition in the Crucible of the Industrial Revolution

Michael S. Teitelbaum

In the series Princeton Legacy Library

Volume 621 in the series Office of Population Research

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400857159

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Building on the theory of the demographic transition, Michael S. Teitelbaum assesses the dramatic decline in British fertility from 1841 to 1931 in terms of social transformations associated with the Industrial Revolution. His book is an intensive analysis of the British case at both county and national levels.

Originally published in 1984.

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Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
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Chapter 2: The Social and Economic Setting from 1750 to 1913 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
Chapter 3: Methods of Fertility Measurement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
Chapter 4: Trends in Overall Fertility, 1841-1931 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Chapter 5: Nuptiality Components of Fertility Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Chapter 6: Marital and Extramarital Fertility Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
Chapter 7: Alternative "Explanatory" Models of Marital Fertility Decline Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Chapter 8: The Social and Economic Context of Fertility Decline Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
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Appendix: Two Sets of County Boundaries, and Erroneous Figures for County Vital Rates in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Edith Pantelides and Ansley J. Coale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
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