With a perpetually tight job market, the road to an academic career can be a rocky and frustrating one. There are lots of questions, and this book attempts to provide good, frank answers to them. The three authors, with more than 75 years of combined academic experience, talk openly about what is good and what's not so good about academic life. ...
These essays explore the well-being of diverse populations in Europe and America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Trends and cycles in height are explored among slaves, indentured servants, students in the West Point Military Academy, in the Ecole Polytechnique, as well as in the British Army.
What can body measurements tell us about living standards in the past? In this collection of essays studying height and weight data from 18th- and early 19th-century Europe, North America and Asia, 14 scholars explore the relation between physical size, economic development and standard of living among various socioeconomic groups. Analyzing the ...
Inhalt: Part I: The Americas, Asia and Australia: Mit Beitragen von: Stephen L. Morgan; Stephen Nicholas / Robert Gregory / Sue Kimberley; Henk-Jan Brinkman / J.W. Drukker; Ricardo Salvatore / Jorg Baten; Ricardo D. Salvatore; Insong Gill; Richard H. Steckel / Paul W. Sciulli / Jerome C. Rose; Michael R. Haines; Philip R. P. Coelho / Robert A. ...
Wirtschaftsgeschichtliche Forschung kann nur interdisziplinar betrieben werden und ihre Aufgabe der Vertiefung unseres Verstandnisses von sozio-okonomischen Prozessen und deren Interaktion mit politischen Entwicklungen erfullen, wenn okonomische Theorie vernunftig angewendet wird. Zwei amerikanische Wissenschaftler, Douglas North und Robert Fogel, ...
These essays examine the anthropometric effects of the momentous economic changes of the last two centuries, including analysis of regions such as Russia, Canada, Indonesia, Italy and Spain.
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