Abstract
This is a comparative examination of eighteenth-century trends in fertility and mortality in western Europe. The present study of the food shortages and mortality crises of the early 1770s is intended to add to our understanding of the variables responsible for the divergence of English and Continental population trends during that decade. It is also intended to shed additional light on the broader interrelated issues of the relationship between fluctuations in death rates and movements in real wages and the role of epidemic disease in the inverse relationship between birth rates and death rates during short-run demographic variations. (EXCERPT)
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