Cities, market integration, and going to sea: stunting and the standard of living in early nineteenth-century England and Wales.
A new source, 1840s Admiralty seamen's tickets, is used to explore three anthropometric issues. First, did being born in a city, with its associated disamenities, lead to stunting? Second, did being born near a city, whose markets sucked away foodstuffs, lead to stunting? Third, did child labou...
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Blackwell Publishing
2009
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