Boris Mironov

The Standard of Living and Revolutions in Imperial Russia, 1700-1917

Herausgeber: Freeze, Gregory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first full-scale anthropometric history of Imperial Russia (1700-1917). It mobilizes an immense volume of archival material to chart the growth, weight, and other anthropometric indicators of the male and female populations in order to chart how the standard of living in Russia changed over slightly more than two centuries. It draws on a wide range of data-statistics on agricultural production, taxation, prices and wages, nutrition, and demography-to draw conclusions on the dynamics in the standard of living over this long period of time. The economic, social, and political interpretation of these findings make it possible to reconsider the prevailing views in the historiography and to offer a new perspective on Imperial Russia.

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Routledge is proud to publish the first full-scale anthropometric history of Imperial Russia; Mirinov mobilizes an immense volume of archival material to chart chart how the standard of living in Russia changed over slightly more than two centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1089g
• ISBN-13: 9780415608541
• ISBN-10: 0415608546
• Artikelnr.: 31081289

Autorenporträt

Boris Mirinov is Professor at St. Petersburg State University and Senior Research Scholar at the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Inhaltsangabe

1. Living Standards in Imperial Russia as Portrayed in Domestic and Foreign
Historiography 2. Historical Anthropometrics: Goals, Biological
Foundations, Methodology 3. The Sources of Anthropometric Data:
Representativeness, Accuracy, and Homogeneity 4. Biological Status: The
Eighteenth Century 5. Biological Status: The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth
Centuries 6. The Geography of Russian Biological Status 7. Consumption,
Health, and Biological Status 8. Wages and Prices in Russia from the
Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century 9. Contemporary Observations on
the Population's Standard of Living 10. The Modernization of Russia and the
Well-Being of the Population 11. Conclusion