An Introduction to English Historical Demography from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century

by E. A. Wrigley

Good hard cover, no jacket, from the collection of Susan Reynolds, a medieval historian, academic and tutor at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Owner has penned FEP. General shelf and handling wear, including notable fading of boards and spine, and wear to edges. Within, pages are securely bound, and content is unmarked. CN

283 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1966

Reviews

[Chris]

This is an adaptation of Louis Henry’s methodology onto the English early modern context. The centerpiece of the book is an outline of the “family reconstitution” method, which undoubtedly was helpful to local historians in the ‘60s, but is less interesting today because the method has already been utilized and the resulting data analyzed by Wrigley and Schofield.

[Jeff Crosby]

Used writing history thesis 1970s. One of the earliest works to apply statistical analysis to history produced by the Cambridge Group.