The Demography of Victorian England and Wales. (Reviews of Books).

Robert Woods. The Demography of Victorian England and Wales. (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy, and Society in Past Time.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pp. xxv, 447. $69.95. ISBN 0-521-78254-6.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, a demographic revolution took place in England and Wales epitomized by the joint and mutually reinforcing processes of family limitation and reduced childhood mortality. The former was achieved largely without contraceptives and the latter without effective medical intervention. The causes of this joint movement, according ...

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