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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- PART I: GENERAL -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 POPULATION, ECONOMY AND SOCIETY -- The new economic history -- The regional framework of research -- The problem of periodization -- Some problems of measurement -- Defects in source material -- The ecology of population change -- Marriage and population growth -- Fertility of marriage -- Mortality -- Mortality: famine and epidemics -- Population, industry and agriculture -- The labour force and the domestic consumer -- Conclusion -- 3 TOWARDS A HISTORY OF POPULATION -- Demographic history as an instrument of history and of demography -- Nineteenth-century history and the explanation of contemporary demographic phenomena -- The usefulness of the demographic history of an earlier period -- 4 THE VITAL REVOLUTION RECONSIDERED -- 5 BIRTHS AND DEATHS AMONG EUROPE'S RULING FAMILIES SINCE 1500 -- Marriage and Birth -- Mortality: the perinatal period -- Infant mortality -- Children Aged 1-14 Years -- Adolescence and early maturity -- Late maturity -- Old Age -- Summary -- 6 EUROPEAN MARRIAGE PATTERNS IN PERSPECTIVE -- The uniqueness of the European pattern -- The eighteenth century -- The aristocracy -- The Middle Ages -- The Ancient World -- Non-statistical evidence -- The age-sex composition of the population -- Conclusion -- Appendix: the evidence from data on marital status in the eighteenth century -- PART II: GREAT BRITAIN -- 7 THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF MODERN BRITAIN -- 8 TWO PAPERS ON GREGORY KING -- Introductory Note -- Gregory King and the population of England and Wales at the end of the seventeenth century -- Gregory King's estimate of the population of England and Wales, 1695 -- Appendix: Note on the number of houses in England and Wales 1690 -- 9 POPULATION AND POPULATION MOVEMENTS IN ENGLAND AND WALES, 1700 TO 1850