Paths to the city and roads to death: Mortality and migration in East Belgium during the industrial revolution

Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis/ Revue Belge de Histoire Contemporaine

Volumn 31, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 453-495

  Oris, Michel ^a   Alter, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; FAMILY; HISTORY; HUNGER; INDUSTRY; LEGAL ASPECT; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STARVATION; UNEMPLOYMENT;

BELGIUM; COMMERCE; ECONOMICS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EMPLOYMENT; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FAMILY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUNGER; INDUSTRY; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREJUDICE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STARVATION; STEREOTYPING; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 0037538872     PISSN: 00350869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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