The height of Tennessee convicts: Another piece of the "antebellum puzzle"

Economics and Human Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 75-86

  Sunder, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antebellum puzzle; Anthropometric history; Criminals; Height; Living standards during industrialization; Self sufficiency; Tennessee; Weight

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MALE; NUTRITIONAL PARAMETERS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OFFENDER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRISONER; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; ETHNIC GROUP; HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; ETHNIC GROUPS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRISONERS; TENNESSEE;

EID: 3543077003     PISSN: 1570677X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2004.01.002     Document Type: Article

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