Height, health and history : nutritional status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980
Floud, Roderick1990
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This study uses a wealth of military and philanthropic data to establish the changing heights of young male Britons during the period of industrialization and establishes a new dimension to the controversy about living standards during the Industrial Revolution.
Main title:
Height, health and history : nutritional status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980 / Roderick Floud, Kenneth Wachter, and Annabel Gregory.
Imprint:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Collation:
xxi,354p. : ill. ; 24cm.
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Notes:
Bibliography: p328-344. - Includes index.
ISBN:
9780521303149
Dewey class:
306.3613.2
Language:
English
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BRN:
250645
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