Height and health in the United Kingdom 1815-1860: Evidence from the East India Company Army

Explorations in Economic History

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 141-168

  Mokyr, Joel ^a   Ó Gráda, Cormac ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; EAST INDIA ARMY; HISTORICAL STUDY; LIVING STANDARDS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

UK;

EID: 0030111925     PISSN: 00144983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exeh.1996.0007     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Bayley, C. C. (1977), Mercenaries for the Crimea: The German, Swiss, and Italian Legions in British Service, 1854-1856. Montreal: McGill-Queen's Press.
2. Bhatia, H. S. (1977), Military History of British India (1607-1947). Delhi: Deep & Deep.
3. Bowen, Huw (1986), "The East India Company and Military Recruitment in Britain, 1763-71." Journal of the Institute of Historical Research 59, 78-90.
4. British Parliamentary Papers (1830), "Army: Rates of Pay and Allowances to Officers and Men in the Years 1792 and 1829," 18 [580.]. Pp. 96-97.
5. British Parliamentary Papers (1841), "Correspondence Respecting the Pay of Troops Serving in India," 14 [97.]. P. 217.
6. British Parliamentary Papers (1843), Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Take the Census of Ireland for the Year 1841.
7. Broeker, Galen (1970), Rural Disorder and Police Reform in Ireland 1812-36. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
8. Buckley, Roger N. (1978), "The Destruction of the British Army in the West Indies 1793-1815: A Medical History." Journal of the Society of Army Medical Research 56(1), 79-94.
9. Cadell, Sir Patrick (1950/1951), "Irish Soldiers in India." Irish Sword 1, 75-79.
10. Chart, D. A. (1917), "The Irish Levies During the Great French War." English Historical Review 32, 497-516.
11. Ferguson, K. P. (1980), "The Army in Ireland from the Restoration to the Act of Union." Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Trinity College, Dublin.
12. Floud, Roderick (1984), "Measuring the Transformation of the European Economies: Income Health and Welfare." CEPR Discussion Paper 33.
13. Floud, R., Wachter, Kenneth, W., and Gregory, Annabel (1990), Height, Health and History: Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom 1750-1980. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
14. Floud, R., Wachter, Kenneth W., and Gregory, Annabel (1993), "Measuring Historical Heights: Shortcuts or the Long Way Around: A Reply to Komlos." English Historical Review 46(1), 145-154.
15. Fortescue, John W. (1923-1927), A History of the British Army. London: Macmillan. Vols. 11, 12.
16. Glover, Richard (1963), Peninsular Preparation: The Reform of the British Army 1795-1809. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
17. Heathcote, T. A. (1974), The Indian Army: The Garrison of British Imperial India. Newton Abbot: David and Charles.
18. Houlding, J. A. (1981), Fit for Service: The Training of the British Army, 1715-1795. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
19. Hunt, E. (1986), "Industrialization and Regional Inequality: Wages in Britain, 1760-1914." Journal of Economic History 46(4), 935-966.
20. Karsten, Peter (1983), "Irish Soldiers in the British Army, 1792-1922: Suborned or Subordinate?" Journal of Social History 12, 31-64.
21. Komlos, John (1986), "Stature and Nutrition in the Habsburg Monarchy: The Standard of Living and Economic Development in the Eighteenth Century." American Historical Review, 90, 1149-1161.
22. Komlos, John (1993a), "The Secular Trend in the Biological Standard of Living in the United Kingdom, 1730-1860." Economic History Review 46(1), 115-144.
23. Komlos, John (1993b), "Further thoughts on the Nutritional Status of the British Population." Economic History Review 46(2), 363-366.
24. Komlos, John (1993c), "A Malthusian Episode Revisited: The Height of British and Irish Servants in Colonial America." Economic History Review 46(4), 768-782.
25. Laffin, John (1966), Tommy Atkins: The Story of the English Soldier. London: Cassell.
26. Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel (1973), "Anthropologie de la jeunesse masculine en France au niveau d'une cartographie cantonale (1819-1830). In Le Territoire de l'historien. Paris: Gallimard.
27. Lindert, P. and Williamson, J. G. (1983), "English Workers' Living Standards during the Industrial Revolution: A New Look." Economic History Review 36(1), 1-25.
28. Logan, John (1993), "Literacy in Ireland Before the Famine." Mimeo, University of Limerick.
29. McAnally, Sir Henry (1949), The Irish Militia 1793-1816. Dublin: Clonmore & Reynolds.
30. McCabe, Desmond (1991), "The Interfering System: The New Constabulary 1822-1848." In Law, Conflict, and Social Order in County Mayo 1820-1848. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, National University of Ireland. Pp. 223-381.
31. McCanse, Captain S. (1927), History of the Royal Munster Fusiliers. London: Gale & Polden.
32. Madalla, G. S. (1983), Limited-Dependent and Qualitative Variables in Econometrics. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
33. Mainwaring, Major A. (1911), Crown and Company, the Historic Record of the Second Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. London: Humphries.
34. Mason, Philip (1974), A Matter of Honour: An Account of the Indian Army, Its Officers and Men. London: Jonathan Cape.
35. Mitch, David (1993), "The Role of Human Capital in the First Industrial Revolution." In Joel Mokyr (Ed.), The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective. Boulder/Oxford: Westview. Pp. 267-307.
36. Mokyr, Joel (1983), Why Ireland Starved: A Quantitative and Analytical History of the Irish Economy 1800-1850. London: Allen & Unwin.
37. Mokyr, Joel, Ed. (1993), "Editor's Introduction." The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective. Boulder/Oxford: Westview. Pp. 1-131.
38. Mokyr, Joel, and Ó Gráda, Cormac (1988), "Poor and Getting Poorer? Irish Living Standards Before the Great Famine." Economic History Review 41(2), 209-235.
39. Mokyr, Joel, and Ó Gráda, Cormac (1989), "The Height of Englishmen and Irishmen in the 1770s: Evidence from the East India Company." Eighteenth Century Ireland 4, 83-92.
40. Mokyr, Joel, and Ó Gráda, Cormac (1994), "The Heights of the British and the Irish c. 1800-1815: Evidence from Recruits to the East India Company's Army." In John Komlos (Ed.), The Biological Standard of Living and Economic Development on Three Continents: Essays in Anthropometric History. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
41. Murphy, Rev. J. J. W. (1969/1970), "Kipling and the Irish Soldier in India." Irish Sword 9, 318-329.
42. Nicholas, Stephen, Ed. (1989), Convict Workers: Reinterpreting Australia's Past. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
43. Nicholas, S., and Oxley, Deborah (1993), "The Living Standards of Women during the Industrial Revolution, 1795-1820." Economic History Review 46(4), 723-749.
44. Nicholas, S., and Steckel, Richard H. (1991), "Heights and Living Standards during the Early Years of Industrialisation." Journal of Economic History 51(4), 937-957.
45. Nicholas, S., and Steckel, R. H. (1992). "Tall but Poor: Nutrition, Health and Living Standards in Pre-famine Ireland." NBER Working Paper Series on Historical Factors in Long-Run Growth, No. 39, Aug.
46. Ó Gráda, Cormac (1992), "The Heights of Clonmel Prisoners 1845-1849." Irish Economic and Social History 19, 24-33.
47. Ó Gráda, Cormac (1993), Ireland before and after the Famine: Explorations in Economic History 1800-1925. Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press. New ed.
48. Ó Gráda, Cormac (1994), Ireland: A New Economic History 1780-1939. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
49. Reece, Bob (1989), Irish Convicts: The Origins of Convicts Transported to Australia. Dublin: Department of Modern History, University College, Dublin.
50. Robinson, Portia (1993), The Women of Botany Bay. Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin Books (originally published in 1988).
51. Shlomowitz, Ralph (1990), 'Convict Workers: A Review Article.' Australian Economic History Review 30(2), 67-88.
52. Singh, Madan Paul (1976), Indian Army under the East India Company. New Delhi: Sterling.
53. Skelley, Alan Ramsay (1977), The Victorian Army at Home: The Recruitment and Terms and Conditions of the British Regular, 1859-1899. London: Croom Helm.
54. Spiers, Edward M. (1980), The Army and Society 1815-1914. London: Longman.
55. Steckel, Richard (1983), "Heights and National Income." Historical Methods 16(1), 1-7.
56. Thompson, E. P. (1968), The Making of the English Working Class. Harmondsworth: Pelican.
57. Wachter, Kenneth W., and Trussell, James (1982), "Estimating Historical Heights." Journal of the American Statistical Association 77, 279-293.
58. Wakefield, Edward (1812), An Account of Ireland, Statistical and Political. London: Longman.
59. Williamson, J. G. (1990), Coping with City Growth During the British Industrial Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
60. Wylly, H. C. (1924), Neill's Blue Caps: the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. London: Polden.