Population History of Britain and Ireland 1500-1750: (New Studies in Economic and Social History)

Series: New Studies in Economic and Social History

Over the past twenty years population history has become a thriving field of research. In this concise volume, Dr. Houston reviews all the recent literature and explains the different population trends evident in parts of Britain and Ireland. He sets out the sometimes complex interactions among fertility, nuptiality, morality and migration in a clear and comprehensible way, and examines a wide ran