Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy: An Anthropometric History

by John Komlos

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John Komlos examines the industrial expansion of Austria from a fresh viewpoint and develops a new model for the industrial revolution. By integrating recent advances in the study of human biology and nutrition as they relate to physical stature, population growth, and levels of economic development, he reveals an intense Malthusian crisis in the Habsburg lands during the second half of the eighteenth century. At that time food shortages brought...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691603596

ISBN13:9780691603599

Release Date:July 2014

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:344 Pages

Weight:1.06 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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