English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580–1837 32 9780521590150

English Population History from Family Reconstitution 15801837Author(s): E. A. Wrigley, R. S. Davies, J. E. Oeppen, R. S. Schofield\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521590150, 978-0521590150\nSynopsis\nEnglish Population History from Family Reconstitution [tel] is the most important single contribution to English historical demography since Wrigley and Schofield's Population History of England. It represents the culmination of work carried out at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure over the past quarter-century. This work demonstrates the value of the technique of family reconstitution as a means of obtaining accurate and detailed information about fertility, morality, and nuptiality in the past. Indeed, more is now known about many aspects of English demography in the parish register period than about the post-1837 period when the Registrar-General collected .