Different places, different stories: Infant mortality decline in England and Wales, 1851-1911

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 773-794

  Gregory, Ian N ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Core periphery divide; Historical GIS; Infant mortality; Spatio temporal analysis; Urban rural divide

Indexed keywords

CORE-PERIPHERY RELATIONS; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; GIS; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; INFANT MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; RURAL POPULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; URBAN POPULATION;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 65449153210     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045600802224406     Document Type: Article

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