Patrick Wallis
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3785566 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Patrick Wallis |
| NOMBRES | Patrick |
| APELLIDO | Wallis |
| FIRMA | WALLIS P |
| AFILIACIONES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 161 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution
How were unskilled workers selected and hired in preindustrial labor markets? We exploit records from the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral, London (1672-1748), to analyze the hiring and employment histories of over 1,000 general building laborers, the benchmark category of "unskilled" workers in long-run wage series. Despite volatile demand, St Paul's created a stable workforce by rewarding the tenure of long-standing workers. More senior worker…
Note on Biographic and Bibliographic Information
The Booksellers' Bill involved the interests of four different professions: authors, booksellers, lawyers and politicians. The bibliographic details of most of the characters involved are well known and easily accessible. Accordingly, all that has been provided here is the key bibliographical dates and an asterisk ( * ) where there is an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 1 a dagger ( ) where the person was a member of parliame…
Symposium
Structural Change and Economic Growth in the British Economy before the Industrial Revolution, 1500-1800
Structural transformation is a key indicator of economic development. We present the first time series of male labor sectoral shares for England and Wales before 1800, using a large sample of probate and apprenticeship data to produce national- and county-level estimates. England experienced a rapid decline in the share of workers in agriculture between the early seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, associated with rising ag…
Guilds in the transition to modernity
One important aspect of the transition to modernity is the survival of elements of the Old Regime beyond the French Revolution. It has been claimed that this can explain why in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries some Western countries adopted national corporatist structures while others transformed into liberal market economies. One of those elements is the persistence or absence of guild traditions. This is usually analyzed in a n…
Households, Consumption and the Development of Medical Care in the Netherlands, 1650–1900
This article examines the development of the Dutch medical marketplace between 1650 and 1900 from a household's perspective. Using debts for medical care recorded in probate inventories, we construct the first quantitative analysis of levels of demand for medical care and the types of medical provision in small towns and villages across the Netherlands – locations much more representative of most of Europe than its better-studied cities. We revea…
Medical Revolutions? The Growth of Medicine in England, 1660–1800
This paper studies the rising use of commercial medical assistance in early modern England.
Introduction
The papers in this section address a common question: how likely were sick people in early modern Europe to seek care from a medical practitioner? The evidence they present reveals a level of engagement with commercial medical provision that varied substantially across Europe but that, for the most part, shared one striking characteristic: growth. While the likelihood that someone would turn to a medical practitioner for help was markedly higher …
The price of human capital in a pre-industrial economy
James E. Shaw and Evelyn S. Welch, Making and Marketing Medicine in Renaissance Florence
In Making and Marketing Medicine in Renaissance Florence James Shaw and Evelyn Welch have constructed a ‘quantitative microhistory’ of an apothecary's shop in the late fifteenth century. As fits a microhistory, their focus is tight. The book is built around a single shop's accounts for a single year, from August 1493 to July 1494. Despite the unavoidable limitations imposed by this empirical basis, the authors succeed in turning the narrowness of…
Rules and reality
This article uses recently digitized samples of apprentices and masters in London and Bristol to quantify the practice of apprenticeship in the late seventeenth century. Apprenticeship appears much more fluid than is traditionally understood. Many apprentices did not complete their terms of indenture; late arrival and early departure from the master's household were widespread. Other apprentices appear to have been absent temporarily, returning t…
Leaving home and entering service
Leaving home and entering service was a key transition in early modern England. This article presents evidence on the age of apprenticeship in London. Using a new sample of 22,156 apprentices bound between 1575 and 1810, we find that apprentices became younger (from 17.4 to 14.7 years) and more homogeneous in age, irrespective of background. We examine the effect of region of origin, parental occupation, Company entered and paternal mortality on …
Consumption, retailing, and medicine in early-modern London
This article examines the early development of specialized retail shops in early modern London. It argues that apothecaries' shops were sites of innovative shop design and display. These practices were responses to attitudes to consumption, the problematic nature of the medical commodities which apothecaries sold, and, particularly, contemporary concerns about their reliability, trustworthiness, and honesty. The article concludes that analyses of…
Plagues, Morality and the Place of Medicine in Early Modern England
Plague was a harsh trial for early modern communities. Responding to he heavy toll of sickness and death presented tough ethical problems: Who must act? What risks must they accept? This paper examines the role and obligations of English medical practitioners during epidemics. It focuses on the key question of whether they should stay to treat the sick or could flee to safety. Historians have often condemned doctors who fled, assuming that this w…
Sars, Governance and the Globalization of Disease
David P. Fidler, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. 240. £47.50 (hbk). ISBN 1–4039–3326-X. One of the most striking aspects of the SARS epidemic was its timeliness in giving form to the slew of recent warnings about the threat from emerging infectious diseases. SARS was, of course, far from the first new infectious disease to appear but it was, and for the moment remains, the only one to be efficiently transmitted by respiratory means. As…
Metaphors and Biorisks
This article seeks to construct a comparative investigation of the role and application of militaristic metaphors in three contested areas of science-society discourse (invasive species, foot-and-mouth disease, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). It examines differences in the uses of metaphors and the role played by the emergence or neglect of critical linguistic engagement in these areas of public concern. It contributes to debates about th…
Disease metaphors in new epidemics
Disease metaphors in new epidemics
Consumption, retailing, and medicine in early-modern London
This article examines the early development of specialized retail shops in early modern London. It argues that apothecaries' shops were sites of innovative shop design and display. These practices were responses to attitudes to consumption, the problematic nature of the medical commodities which apothecaries sold, and, particularly, contemporary concerns about their reliability, trustworthiness, and honesty. The article concludes that analyses of…
Metaphors and Biorisks
This article seeks to construct a comparative investigation of the role and application of militaristic metaphors in three contested areas of science-society discourse (invasive species, foot-and-mouth disease, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). It examines differences in the uses of metaphors and the role played by the emergence or neglect of critical linguistic engagement in these areas of public concern. It contributes to debates about th…
The price of human capital in a pre-industrial economy
Structural Change and Economic Growth in the British Economy before the Industrial Revolution, 1500-1800
Structural transformation is a key indicator of economic development. We present the first time series of male labor sectoral shares for England and Wales before 1800, using a large sample of probate and apprenticeship data to produce national- and county-level estimates. England experienced a rapid decline in the share of workers in agriculture between the early seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, associated with rising ag…
Rules and reality
This article uses recently digitized samples of apprentices and masters in London and Bristol to quantify the practice of apprenticeship in the late seventeenth century. Apprenticeship appears much more fluid than is traditionally understood. Many apprentices did not complete their terms of indenture; late arrival and early departure from the master's household were widespread. Other apprentices appear to have been absent temporarily, returning t…
Plagues, Morality and the Place of Medicine in Early Modern England
Plague was a harsh trial for early modern communities. Responding to he heavy toll of sickness and death presented tough ethical problems: Who must act? What risks must they accept? This paper examines the role and obligations of English medical practitioners during epidemics. It focuses on the key question of whether they should stay to treat the sick or could flee to safety. Historians have often condemned doctors who fled, assuming that this w…
Leaving home and entering service
Leaving home and entering service was a key transition in early modern England. This article presents evidence on the age of apprenticeship in London. Using a new sample of 22,156 apprentices bound between 1575 and 1810, we find that apprentices became younger (from 17.4 to 14.7 years) and more homogeneous in age, irrespective of background. We examine the effect of region of origin, parental occupation, Company entered and paternal mortality on …
Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution
How were unskilled workers selected and hired in preindustrial labor markets? We exploit records from the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral, London (1672-1748), to analyze the hiring and employment histories of over 1,000 general building laborers, the benchmark category of "unskilled" workers in long-run wage series. Despite volatile demand, St Paul's created a stable workforce by rewarding the tenure of long-standing workers. More senior worker…
Households, Consumption and the Development of Medical Care in the Netherlands, 1650–1900
This article examines the development of the Dutch medical marketplace between 1650 and 1900 from a household's perspective. Using debts for medical care recorded in probate inventories, we construct the first quantitative analysis of levels of demand for medical care and the types of medical provision in small towns and villages across the Netherlands – locations much more representative of most of Europe than its better-studied cities. We revea…
Medical Revolutions? The Growth of Medicine in England, 1660–1800
This paper studies the rising use of commercial medical assistance in early modern England.
Sars, Governance and the Globalization of Disease
David P. Fidler, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. 240. £47.50 (hbk). ISBN 1–4039–3326-X. One of the most striking aspects of the SARS epidemic was its timeliness in giving form to the slew of recent warnings about the threat from emerging infectious diseases. SARS was, of course, far from the first new infectious disease to appear but it was, and for the moment remains, the only one to be efficiently transmitted by respiratory means. As…
Sars, Governance and the Globalization of Disease
David P. Fidler, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. 240. £47.50 (hbk). ISBN 1–4039–3326-X. One of the most striking aspects of the SARS epidemic was its timeliness in giving form to the slew of recent warnings about the threat from emerging infectious diseases. SARS was, of course, far from the first new infectious disease to appear but it was, and for the moment remains, the only one to be efficiently transmitted by respiratory means. As…
Metaphors and Biorisks
This article seeks to construct a comparative investigation of the role and application of militaristic metaphors in three contested areas of science-society discourse (invasive species, foot-and-mouth disease, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). It examines differences in the uses of metaphors and the role played by the emergence or neglect of critical linguistic engagement in these areas of public concern. It contributes to debates about th…
Disease metaphors in new epidemics
Plagues, Morality and the Place of Medicine in Early Modern England
Plague was a harsh trial for early modern communities. Responding to he heavy toll of sickness and death presented tough ethical problems: Who must act? What risks must they accept? This paper examines the role and obligations of English medical practitioners during epidemics. It focuses on the key question of whether they should stay to treat the sick or could flee to safety. Historians have often condemned doctors who fled, assuming that this w…
Consumption, retailing, and medicine in early-modern London
This article examines the early development of specialized retail shops in early modern London. It argues that apothecaries' shops were sites of innovative shop design and display. These practices were responses to attitudes to consumption, the problematic nature of the medical commodities which apothecaries sold, and, particularly, contemporary concerns about their reliability, trustworthiness, and honesty. The article concludes that analyses of…
Leaving home and entering service
Leaving home and entering service was a key transition in early modern England. This article presents evidence on the age of apprenticeship in London. Using a new sample of 22,156 apprentices bound between 1575 and 1810, we find that apprentices became younger (from 17.4 to 14.7 years) and more homogeneous in age, irrespective of background. We examine the effect of region of origin, parental occupation, Company entered and paternal mortality on …
James E. Shaw and Evelyn S. Welch, Making and Marketing Medicine in Renaissance Florence
In Making and Marketing Medicine in Renaissance Florence James Shaw and Evelyn Welch have constructed a ‘quantitative microhistory’ of an apothecary's shop in the late fifteenth century. As fits a microhistory, their focus is tight. The book is built around a single shop's accounts for a single year, from August 1493 to July 1494. Despite the unavoidable limitations imposed by this empirical basis, the authors succeed in turning the narrowness of…
Rules and reality
This article uses recently digitized samples of apprentices and masters in London and Bristol to quantify the practice of apprenticeship in the late seventeenth century. Apprenticeship appears much more fluid than is traditionally understood. Many apprentices did not complete their terms of indenture; late arrival and early departure from the master's household were widespread. Other apprentices appear to have been absent temporarily, returning t…
The price of human capital in a pre-industrial economy
Households, Consumption and the Development of Medical Care in the Netherlands, 1650–1900
This article examines the development of the Dutch medical marketplace between 1650 and 1900 from a household's perspective. Using debts for medical care recorded in probate inventories, we construct the first quantitative analysis of levels of demand for medical care and the types of medical provision in small towns and villages across the Netherlands – locations much more representative of most of Europe than its better-studied cities. We revea…
Medical Revolutions? The Growth of Medicine in England, 1660–1800
This paper studies the rising use of commercial medical assistance in early modern England.
Introduction
The papers in this section address a common question: how likely were sick people in early modern Europe to seek care from a medical practitioner? The evidence they present reveals a level of engagement with commercial medical provision that varied substantially across Europe but that, for the most part, shared one striking characteristic: growth. While the likelihood that someone would turn to a medical practitioner for help was markedly higher …
Structural Change and Economic Growth in the British Economy before the Industrial Revolution, 1500-1800
Structural transformation is a key indicator of economic development. We present the first time series of male labor sectoral shares for England and Wales before 1800, using a large sample of probate and apprenticeship data to produce national- and county-level estimates. England experienced a rapid decline in the share of workers in agriculture between the early seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, associated with rising ag…
Guilds in the transition to modernity
One important aspect of the transition to modernity is the survival of elements of the Old Regime beyond the French Revolution. It has been claimed that this can explain why in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries some Western countries adopted national corporatist structures while others transformed into liberal market economies. One of those elements is the persistence or absence of guild traditions. This is usually analyzed in a n…
Symposium
Note on Biographic and Bibliographic Information
The Booksellers' Bill involved the interests of four different professions: authors, booksellers, lawyers and politicians. The bibliographic details of most of the characters involved are well known and easily accessible. Accordingly, all that has been provided here is the key bibliographical dates and an asterisk ( * ) where there is an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 1 a dagger ( ) where the person was a member of parliame…
Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution
How were unskilled workers selected and hired in preindustrial labor markets? We exploit records from the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral, London (1672-1748), to analyze the hiring and employment histories of over 1,000 general building laborers, the benchmark category of "unskilled" workers in long-run wage series. Despite volatile demand, St Paul's created a stable workforce by rewarding the tenure of long-standing workers. More senior worker…
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