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Population and Society in Western European Port Cities, c. 1650-1939

By Richard Lawton

Book information

Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0853234353, 9780853234357
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8252300 bytes)
Series
Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies
Pages
400\405
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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 emphasize the central importance of the high proportion of unskilled and casual labor, the susceptibility of cyclical employment, the inflated risk of epidemic infection, and other demographic and economic factors specific to port cities.

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