The last hiccup of the old demographic regime: Population stagnation and decline in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century south-east England

Continuity and Change

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1989, Pages 395-428

  Dobson, Mary J ^a  

^a School of Geography   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC REGIME; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CYCLE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION STAGNATION; REGIONAL ANALYSIS; SEVENTEENTH CENTURY;

UK, ENGLAND, (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 0024813997     PISSN: 02684160     EISSN: 1469218X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0268416000003787     Document Type: Article

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