Tall farmers and Tiny Weavers : rural living standards and heights in Flanders, 1830-1870
The evolution of the average stature of convicts between 1830 and 1870 in the prisons of Ghent and Bruges is used as a measure of the biological standard of living and suggests progress in the quality of life in the Flemish countryside, particularly for children born after 1850. Heights are used to shed light on regional variations. Prisoners born in coastal Flanders were on average shorter than inmates born in inland Flanders. Heights furthermore provide a key to discovering specific socio-economic differences that can explain such variations, showing that wage labourers in coastal Flanders a... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | journalarticle |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
Schlagwörter: | History and Archaeology / Height / Flanders / Social agrosystem / Rural / Prisoners / Anthropometric historry |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26697468 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8545925 |