Vital accounts: quantifying health and population in eighteenth-century england and france
Auteur :
Rusnock, Andrea A.
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521101233
Date de publication :
12 févr. 2009
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
430 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Through a compelling comparative analysis, Vital Accounts charts the work of the physicians, clergymen and government officials who crafted the sciences of political and medical arithmetic in England and France during the long eighteenth century, before the emergence of statistics and regular government censuses.