The notion that the pre-industrial city always had a natural surplus of deaths has been accepted as almost axiomatic. In a study published in Past and Present 19 (1978) Sharlin questioned this notion by suggesting a distinction between the reproduction of the permanent population and that of the itinerant population. In this study, based on developments in Dutch cities during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, I propose that the existence of a surplus of deaths in the pre-industrial city was not a necessary feature determined for all time and places by nature, but a situation provoked by specific historical circumstances.La conception selon laquelle la ville pré-industrielle aurait par sa nature toujours connu un excédent de mortalit...
Ostroot (Nathalie M.).- Estimating Urban Mortality under the Ancien Régime: Aix- en-Provence and Tou...
The provision of clean water is mentioned as an important factor in many studies dealing with the dé...
ObjectiveThis study tests the argument that industrialisation was accompanied by a dramatic worsenin...
In early modern European cities deaths outnumbered births, a phenomenon commonly referred to as the ...
This article employs a large database of 10,360 deaths taken from registrations of graves dug and ch...
The Low Countries are seen as one of the few European regions in which a relatively large number of ...
Current scholarship reinforces the notion that by the early modern period, plague had become largely...
Collective identities and transnational networks in medieval and early modern Europe, 1000-180
Historians have observed a strong degree of divergence in population trends after the Black Death ac...
We analyze the development over time and space of the ‘urban penalty’ of livings standards in the Pr...
In this paper we describe the contours of the mortality transition taking place in the Netherlands b...
We analyze the development over time and space of the ‘urban penalty’ of livings standards in the Pr...
Although the fanciful notion that the Black Death bypassed the Low Countries has long been rejected,...
Traditionally cities and towns in historical Europe were perceived as being particularly unhealthy. ...
In the long-running debate over standards of living during the industrial revolution, pessimists hav...
Ostroot (Nathalie M.).- Estimating Urban Mortality under the Ancien Régime: Aix- en-Provence and Tou...
The provision of clean water is mentioned as an important factor in many studies dealing with the dé...
ObjectiveThis study tests the argument that industrialisation was accompanied by a dramatic worsenin...
In early modern European cities deaths outnumbered births, a phenomenon commonly referred to as the ...
This article employs a large database of 10,360 deaths taken from registrations of graves dug and ch...
The Low Countries are seen as one of the few European regions in which a relatively large number of ...
Current scholarship reinforces the notion that by the early modern period, plague had become largely...
Collective identities and transnational networks in medieval and early modern Europe, 1000-180
Historians have observed a strong degree of divergence in population trends after the Black Death ac...
We analyze the development over time and space of the ‘urban penalty’ of livings standards in the Pr...
In this paper we describe the contours of the mortality transition taking place in the Netherlands b...
We analyze the development over time and space of the ‘urban penalty’ of livings standards in the Pr...
Although the fanciful notion that the Black Death bypassed the Low Countries has long been rejected,...
Traditionally cities and towns in historical Europe were perceived as being particularly unhealthy. ...
In the long-running debate over standards of living during the industrial revolution, pessimists hav...
Ostroot (Nathalie M.).- Estimating Urban Mortality under the Ancien Régime: Aix- en-Provence and Tou...
The provision of clean water is mentioned as an important factor in many studies dealing with the dé...
ObjectiveThis study tests the argument that industrialisation was accompanied by a dramatic worsenin...