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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    16 February 2010
    11 January 1996
    ISBN:
    9780511582240
    9780521343435
    9780521528689
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511582240
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    1.303kg, 726 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    1.05kg, 728 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Social and Population History, British History after 1450, Regional and World History: General Interest, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time (27)
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, British History after 1450, Regional and World History: General Interest, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time (27)
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    This book offers an original interpretation of the history of falling fertilities in Britain between 1860 and 1940. It integrates the approaches of the social sciences and of demographic, feminist, and labour history with intellectual, social, and political history. It exposes the conceptual and statistical inadequacies of the orthodox picture of a national, unitary class-differential fertility decline, and presents an entirely new analysis of the famous 1911 fertility census of England and Wales. Surprising and important findings emerge concerning the principal methods of birth control: births were spaced from early on in marriage; and sexual abstinence by married couples was a far more significant practice than previously imagined. The author presents a new general approach to the study of fertility change, raising central issues concerning the relationship between history and social science.

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    ‘… required reading for anyone interested in the still unresolved debate over the nature and causes of the origins and process of the modern fertility transition.’

    English Historical Review

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