Population and Metropolis: The Demography of London 1580-1650

by Roger Finlay

Book Overview

This is a book about the population of London during the early modern period and a detailed book about the population of a European metropolitan city at that time. Much is now known about the historical demography of rural England, but very little is understood about the larger towns and cities. Roger Finlay applies new techniques in historical demography, principally family reconstitution and aggregative analysis of parish registers, to study the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521103142
• ISBN13: 9780521103145
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"