Population and society in western European port cities, c.1650-1939 / edited by Richard Lawton and Robert Lee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lawton, Richard, 1925-2010.

Lee, W. Robert.

Series:

Liverpool studies in European population ; 2.

Liverpool studies in European population ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Demography--Europe.

Demography.

Port districts--Europe--History.

Port districts.

Cities and towns--Europe--Growth.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 385 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 emphasise the central importance of the high proportion of unskilled and casual labour, the susceptibility of cyclical employment, the inflated risk of epidemic infection, and other demographic and economic factors specific to port cities.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78138-811-3

1-84631-383-X

OCLC:

476209138