A coherent, comprehensive description and analysis of the most recent 170 years of Scottish population history. With its coverage of both national and local themes, set in the context of changes in Scottish economy and society, this study is an essential and definitive source for anyone studying modern Scottish history, sociology, or geography.
A coherent, comprehensive description and analysis of the most recent 170 years of Scottish population history. With its coverage of both national and local themes, set in the context of changes in Scottish economy and society, this study is an essential and definitive source for anyone studying modern Scottish history, sociology, or geography.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Michael Anderson worked in the University of Edinburgh for forty years, initially in Sociology until he was appointed to the Chair of Economic History in 1979. He was the University's Senior Vice-Principal from 2000 to 2007. Over the forty years he taught a wide variety of Sociology, Economic and Social History, and Social Science Research Design courses. His research interests have included historical work on the family and demography, a large-scale census enumeration book database for 1851, and studies of the social economy of the household, both in the past and, through surveys and interviews, in the 1980s and 1990s. He holds Fellowships of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He served on the Council of ESRC and chaired the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland for twelve years. Corinne Roughley is Fellow of Hughes Hall Cambridge and has wide-rangng interests in the spatial patterning of people and their activities from the Neolithic to the present.
Inhaltsangabe
Part 1. Questions and contexts 1: Scotland's population: not just a history of crises 2: The broad patterns of population change 3: Physical, social, and economic contexts Part 2. The multiple Scotlands 4: Multiple Scotlands: sub-regional patterns of population change 5: Multiple Scotlands: the nature and sources of sub-regional change 6: Islands 7: The major urban centres Part 3. Migration and the components and structures of population change 8: The components of population change 9: Patterns of migration 10: Changing age and sex structures and their consequences Part 4. Fertility and nuptiality 11: Marriage and nuptiality 12: Fertility: national and regional trends 13: The interactions between fertility and nuptiality 14: The first Scottish fertility decline 15: Explaining fertility changes since the 1930s Part 5. Mortality 16: Scottish national mortality and its wider context 17: Causes of death 18: Spatial variations in mortality and its causes 19: Social and economic differences in mortality Part 6. Conclusion 20: How and why was Scotland different and what may happen next?
Part 1. Questions and contexts 1: Scotland's population: not just a history of crises 2: The broad patterns of population change 3: Physical, social, and economic contexts Part 2. The multiple Scotlands 4: Multiple Scotlands: sub-regional patterns of population change 5: Multiple Scotlands: the nature and sources of sub-regional change 6: Islands 7: The major urban centres Part 3. Migration and the components and structures of population change 8: The components of population change 9: Patterns of migration 10: Changing age and sex structures and their consequences Part 4. Fertility and nuptiality 11: Marriage and nuptiality 12: Fertility: national and regional trends 13: The interactions between fertility and nuptiality 14: The first Scottish fertility decline 15: Explaining fertility changes since the 1930s Part 5. Mortality 16: Scottish national mortality and its wider context 17: Causes of death 18: Spatial variations in mortality and its causes 19: Social and economic differences in mortality Part 6. Conclusion 20: How and why was Scotland different and what may happen next?
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