John Landers
Biographic Data
| ID | 136536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Landers |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Landers |
| SIGNATURE | LANDERS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8480-3905 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Amanda Kay McVety. The Rinderpest Campaigns: A Virus, Its Vaccines, and Global Development in the Twentieth Century
In 1973, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie’s “Un concept: L’unification microbienne du monde (XVIe–XVIIe siècles)” offered a new perspective on global history (Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschicht 23, no. 4 [1973]: 627–694). The unification of the world by disease—as the title’s English translation reads—is also the theme of Amanda Kay McVety’s The Rinderpest Campaigns: A Virus, Its Vaccines, and Global Development in the Twentieth Century. In this cas…
Olivia Weisser. Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England
Energy and Industrial Revolution
Battlefields before Gunpowder
The Field and the Forge: Population, Production, and Power in the Pre-industrial West
This book offers a new approach to the pre-industrial past in Europe and the Mediterranean basin from the Roman Republic to the fall of Napoleon. It takes as its starting point E. A. Wrigley’s concept of ‘organic economies’ and their reliance on the land for energy and raw materials. It first considers the constraints on productivity, transportation, and the spatial organization of the economy. The second section analyses the constraints imposed …
The Destructiveness of Pre-Industrial Warfare: Political and Technological Determinants
This article is concerned with the demographic impact of warfare in pre-industrial Europe and the consequences of the adoption of firearms from the early 16th century. The scale of warfare and its costs both increased, but the demographic impact depended on rulers' strategies for meeting or evading these costs, rather than the scale of warfare itself. War-induced mortality was almost entirely due to epidemic disease precipitated by economic and s…
Human biologists in the archives: Demography, health, nutrition and genetics in historical populations
Slavery in the Lower South
If you ask Americans about the origins of slavery in this country, most would doubtlessly tell you that it all began at \h_^z:a^m the his tory of Africans in colonial North America is not synonymous with slavery. In the Lower South, indigenous sla very predated the arrival of Africans; in deed, some of the first Africans to reach the shores of what would later become the United States were free. Moreover, both free and enslaved Africans arrived m…
Mortality in eighteenth-century London: A note
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Just a Sack of Potatoes? Crisis Experiences in European Societies, Past and Present
Death and the metropolis: Studies in the demographic history of London, 1670-1830
Death and the Metropolis: Studies in the Demographic History of London, 1670–1830
Death and the Metropolis offers a powerful analysis of demographic patterns in London over the 'long eighteenth century', concentrating on mortality but also including data on marital fertility, population structure and migration. The study is based on a variety of sources including weekly and annual Bills of Mortality, parish registers and Quaker vital registers, and employs the techniques of family reconstitution and aggregative analysis. The d…
Friends in life and death: The British and Irish Quakers in the demographic transition
Fertility decline and birth spacing among London Quakers
The decline in the marital fertility levels of European populations from the later nineteenth century1 has long been recognized as a landmark in the demographic evolution of the continent, and has been made the subject of a correspondingly detailed scrutiny. Particular interest has attached to the behaviour of the so-called ‘forerunners’, groups which acted as a kind of demographic vanguard reducing their fertility substantially before that of th…
Fertility and resources: 31St symposium volume of the Society for the Study of Human Biology
Fertility and Resources
Fertility in animals reflects access to scarce resources, such as food and territory. In humans the situation is more complex. Patterns of breast feeding, contraception and ideas about age at marriage and desired family size all affect fertility. The relation between these and access to scarce resources such as housing and employment, via income, education and other factors that affect status, is explored. In this book, the gap between socio-ecol…
Age Patterns of Mortality in London During the 'Long Eighteenth Century: A Test of the 'High Potential' Model of Metropolitan Mortality
Secular variations in the mortality of populations before the late nineteenth century cannot generally be explained in terms of changing real incomes, a finding which has contributed to the development of a historical epidemiology concerned particularly with the factors influencing levels of exposure to infection in the past. In this context an important role has been attributed to large metropolitan centres which are likely to have acted as ende…
Black Frontier Settlements in Spanish Colonial Florida
Burial Seasonality and Causes of Death in London 1670-1819
Recent discussions of urban mortality in early modern Europe have concentrated on mortality levels to the relative exclusion of cause-of-death patterns. These, it is often assumed, were dictated by certain characteristics of the urban environment, in particular the problems of waste disposal and water supply, and were thus dominated by water- and food-borne gastric diseases. The present study is based on an analysis of burial seasonality in the w…
Mortality and Metropolis: The Case of London 1675-1825
Recent work in population history emphasizes that demographic phenomena should be seen in a wider social and economic context. This perspective is, however, more easily achieved in the case of fertility than of mortality, which is widely treated as a variable ‘exogenous’ to economy and society. In the present paper it is argued that the inclusion of spatial structure and migration in accounts of historical demographic regimes can restore long-ter…
Mortality, weather and prices in London 1675–1825: A study of short-term fluctuations
Demographic Archaeology
Burial Seasonality and Causes of Death in London 1670-1819
Recent discussions of urban mortality in early modern Europe have concentrated on mortality levels to the relative exclusion of cause-of-death patterns. These, it is often assumed, were dictated by certain characteristics of the urban environment, in particular the problems of waste disposal and water supply, and were thus dominated by water- and food-borne gastric diseases. The present study is based on an analysis of burial seasonality in the w…
Mortality and Metropolis: The Case of London 1675-1825
Recent work in population history emphasizes that demographic phenomena should be seen in a wider social and economic context. This perspective is, however, more easily achieved in the case of fertility than of mortality, which is widely treated as a variable ‘exogenous’ to economy and society. In the present paper it is argued that the inclusion of spatial structure and migration in accounts of historical demographic regimes can restore long-ter…
Age Patterns of Mortality in London During the 'Long Eighteenth Century: A Test of the 'High Potential' Model of Metropolitan Mortality
Secular variations in the mortality of populations before the late nineteenth century cannot generally be explained in terms of changing real incomes, a finding which has contributed to the development of a historical epidemiology concerned particularly with the factors influencing levels of exposure to infection in the past. In this context an important role has been attributed to large metropolitan centres which are likely to have acted as ende…
The Destructiveness of Pre-Industrial Warfare: Political and Technological Determinants
This article is concerned with the demographic impact of warfare in pre-industrial Europe and the consequences of the adoption of firearms from the early 16th century. The scale of warfare and its costs both increased, but the demographic impact depended on rulers' strategies for meeting or evading these costs, rather than the scale of warfare itself. War-induced mortality was almost entirely due to epidemic disease precipitated by economic and s…
Friends in life and death: The British and Irish Quakers in the demographic transition
Mortality, weather and prices in London 1675–1825: A study of short-term fluctuations
Energy and Industrial Revolution
Demographic Archaeology
Mortality, weather and prices in London 1675–1825: A study of short-term fluctuations
Mortality and Metropolis: The Case of London 1675-1825
Recent work in population history emphasizes that demographic phenomena should be seen in a wider social and economic context. This perspective is, however, more easily achieved in the case of fertility than of mortality, which is widely treated as a variable ‘exogenous’ to economy and society. In the present paper it is argued that the inclusion of spatial structure and migration in accounts of historical demographic regimes can restore long-ter…
Black Frontier Settlements in Spanish Colonial Florida
Burial Seasonality and Causes of Death in London 1670-1819
Recent discussions of urban mortality in early modern Europe have concentrated on mortality levels to the relative exclusion of cause-of-death patterns. These, it is often assumed, were dictated by certain characteristics of the urban environment, in particular the problems of waste disposal and water supply, and were thus dominated by water- and food-borne gastric diseases. The present study is based on an analysis of burial seasonality in the w…
Fertility decline and birth spacing among London Quakers
The decline in the marital fertility levels of European populations from the later nineteenth century1 has long been recognized as a landmark in the demographic evolution of the continent, and has been made the subject of a correspondingly detailed scrutiny. Particular interest has attached to the behaviour of the so-called ‘forerunners’, groups which acted as a kind of demographic vanguard reducing their fertility substantially before that of th…
Fertility and resources: 31St symposium volume of the Society for the Study of Human Biology
Fertility and Resources
Fertility in animals reflects access to scarce resources, such as food and territory. In humans the situation is more complex. Patterns of breast feeding, contraception and ideas about age at marriage and desired family size all affect fertility. The relation between these and access to scarce resources such as housing and employment, via income, education and other factors that affect status, is explored. In this book, the gap between socio-ecol…
Age Patterns of Mortality in London During the 'Long Eighteenth Century: A Test of the 'High Potential' Model of Metropolitan Mortality
Secular variations in the mortality of populations before the late nineteenth century cannot generally be explained in terms of changing real incomes, a finding which has contributed to the development of a historical epidemiology concerned particularly with the factors influencing levels of exposure to infection in the past. In this context an important role has been attributed to large metropolitan centres which are likely to have acted as ende…
Friends in life and death: The British and Irish Quakers in the demographic transition
Death and the metropolis: Studies in the demographic history of London, 1670-1830
Death and the Metropolis: Studies in the Demographic History of London, 1670–1830
Death and the Metropolis offers a powerful analysis of demographic patterns in London over the 'long eighteenth century', concentrating on mortality but also including data on marital fertility, population structure and migration. The study is based on a variety of sources including weekly and annual Bills of Mortality, parish registers and Quaker vital registers, and employs the techniques of family reconstitution and aggregative analysis. The d…
Just a Sack of Potatoes? Crisis Experiences in European Societies, Past and Present
Mortality in eighteenth-century London: A note
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Human biologists in the archives: Demography, health, nutrition and genetics in historical populations
Slavery in the Lower South
If you ask Americans about the origins of slavery in this country, most would doubtlessly tell you that it all began at \h_^z:a^m the his tory of Africans in colonial North America is not synonymous with slavery. In the Lower South, indigenous sla very predated the arrival of Africans; in deed, some of the first Africans to reach the shores of what would later become the United States were free. Moreover, both free and enslaved Africans arrived m…
Battlefields before Gunpowder
The Field and the Forge: Population, Production, and Power in the Pre-industrial West
This book offers a new approach to the pre-industrial past in Europe and the Mediterranean basin from the Roman Republic to the fall of Napoleon. It takes as its starting point E. A. Wrigley’s concept of ‘organic economies’ and their reliance on the land for energy and raw materials. It first considers the constraints on productivity, transportation, and the spatial organization of the economy. The second section analyses the constraints imposed …
The Destructiveness of Pre-Industrial Warfare: Political and Technological Determinants
This article is concerned with the demographic impact of warfare in pre-industrial Europe and the consequences of the adoption of firearms from the early 16th century. The scale of warfare and its costs both increased, but the demographic impact depended on rulers' strategies for meeting or evading these costs, rather than the scale of warfare itself. War-induced mortality was almost entirely due to epidemic disease precipitated by economic and s…
Energy and Industrial Revolution
Olivia Weisser. Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England
Amanda Kay McVety. The Rinderpest Campaigns: A Virus, Its Vaccines, and Global Development in the Twentieth Century
In 1973, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie’s “Un concept: L’unification microbienne du monde (XVIe–XVIIe siècles)” offered a new perspective on global history (Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschicht 23, no. 4 [1973]: 627–694). The unification of the world by disease—as the title’s English translation reads—is also the theme of Amanda Kay McVety’s The Rinderpest Campaigns: A Virus, Its Vaccines, and Global Development in the Twentieth Century. In this cas…
History (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Demography (8 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Population (5 works) · Fertility (4 works)