Studies In The Quality Of Life In Victorian Britain And Ireland

Author : Thomas E. Jordan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400761228
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in the Quality of Life in Victorian Britain and Ireland written by Thomas E. Jordan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It does so using several types and sources of information from the census unit England and Wales, and from Ireland. The sources of information used in this study include memoirs, diaries, poems, church records and numerical accounts. They offer descriptions of the quality of life and child mortality over the three centuries under study. Additional sources for the nineteenth century are two census-derived numerical indexes of the quality of life. They are the VICQUAL index for England and Wales, and the QUALEIRE index for Ireland. Statistical procedures have been applied to the numbers provided by the sources with the aim to identify effects of and associations between such variables as gender, age, and social background. The book examines the results to consider the impact of children’s deaths upon parents and families, and concludes that there are differences and continuities across the centuries.

Author : Thomas Edward Jordan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780773413719
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in the Quality of Life and Human Development in Ireland and Britain Since the Sixteenth Century written by Thomas Edward Jordan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in the Quality of Life and Human Development in Ireland and Britain since the Sixteenth Century

Author : Thomas Edward Jordan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780773416710
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in the Quality of Life and Human Development in Ireland and Britain Since the Sixteenth Century written by Thomas Edward Jordan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Mayhew
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1605207330
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Labour and the London Poor written by Henry Mayhew and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assembled from a series of newspaper articles first published in the newspaper *Morning Chronicle* throughout the 1840s, this exhaustively researched, richly detailed survey of the teeming street denizens of London is a work both of groundbreaking sociology and salacious voyeurism. In an 1850 review of the survey, just prior to its initial book publication, William Makepeace Thackeray called it "tale of terror and wonder" offering "a picture of human life so wonderful, so awful, so piteous and pathetic, so exciting and terrible, that readers of romances own they never read anything like to it." Delving into the world of the London "street-folk"-the buyers and sellers of goods, performers, artisans, laborers and others-this extraordinary work inspired the socially conscious fiction of Charles Dickens in the 19th century as well as the urban fantasy of Neil Gaiman in the late 20th. Volume I explores the lives of: the "wandering tribes" costermongers sellers of fish, fruits and vegetables sellers of books and stationery sellers of manufactured goods women and children on the streets and more. English journalist HENRY MAYHEW (1812-1887) was a founder and editor of the satirical magazine *Punch.*

Author : Thomas E. Jordan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400743904
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quality of Life and Mortality Among Children written by Thomas E. Jordan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This birefs examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It does so using several types and sources of information from the census unit England and Wales, and from Ireland. The sources of information used in this study include memoirs, diaries, poems, church records and numerical accounts. They offer descriptions of the quality of life and child mortality over the three centuries under study. Additional sources for the nineteenth century are two census-derived numerical indexes of the quality of life. They are the VICQUAL index for England and Wales, and the QUALEIRE index for Ireland. Statistical procedures have been applied to the numbers provided by the sources with the aim to identify effects of and associations between such variables as gender, age, and social background. The briefs examines the results to consider the impact of children’s deaths upon parents and families, and concludes that there are differences and continuities across the centuries.

Author : Thomas Jordan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303033077X
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quality of Life and Early British Migration written by Thomas Jordan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the quality of life of early modern Britons emigrating to the New World, which became possible with advances in shipbuilding and long-distance sailing. It examines the status and quality of life of those crossing the Atlantic Ocean under legal contract, the indenture – largely to the Carolinas and the communities adjoining Chesapeake Bay in the USA in the 17th century, and also describes and numerically estimates the quality of life among Britons sentenced to “transportation beyond the seas,” who were transported to Australia in the mid-19th century. The author examines the experience of migrants, both adults and children, traveling to the New World and their fate, drawing on documentary sources like state historical records as well as self-documentation from the few surviving diaries. The book also creates profiles of the quality of life of emigrants by gender and age and places the processes of emigration in the social–political contexts of the 17th and 19th centuries. By considering ways in which aspects of social life were organized in eras before structural inquiry into the quality of life, the book provides interesting historical perspectives as well as methodological insights. It appeals to researchers and students interested in the quality of life and wellbeing, and in the history of modern Europe, particularly of the British Empire.

Author : Thomas E. Jordan
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland's Children written by Thomas E. Jordan and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-11-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quantitative analysis of the situation of Ireland's children during the famine era (1841-1861), this study utilizes census data to construct a series of indices to measure the quality of life for children in each of Ireland's 32 counties. While relatively little is known about the particular effects of the famine on childhood, census records from 1841, 1851, and 1861 do exist. Jordan also considers anthropometric data on military recruits, emigration figures, school enrollment, church records, and contemporary accounts to build a picture of Ireland's children. This comparative approach provides a wealth of information on family life in Ireland at both the county and the provincial levels. It addresses the role of home and school as a model of socialization and the use of emigration as a coping device. The author also explores the social climate created by the 1838 Poor Law. Ultimately, the stress of struggling to survive the natural disaster of the famine, combined with the political developments of the day, had a devastating effect on the young.

Author : Roger Swift
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Irish in Victorian Britain written by Roger Swift and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates the diversity of the Irish experience by reference to studies of specific towns and regions which have hitherto received little attention from historians of the Irish in Britain during the Victorian period.

Author : Michele M. Strong
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137338083
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education, Travel and the 'Civilisation' of the Victorian Working Classes written by Michele M. Strong and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining four major institutions, Michele Strong considers the experiences of working men and women, particularly artisans, but also young apprentices and clerks, who travelled abroad as participants in an educational reform movement spearheaded by middle-class liberals.

Author : K. Theodore Hoppen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192543970
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mid-Victorian Generation written by K. Theodore Hoppen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-30 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the third volume to appear in the New Oxford History of England, covers the period from the repeal of the Corn Laws to the dramatic failure of Gladstone's first Home Rule Bill. In his magisterial study of the mid-Victorian generation, Theodore Hoppen identifies three defining themes. The first he calls `established industrialism' - the growing acceptance that factory life and manufacturing had come to stay. It was during these four decades that the balance of employment shifted irrevocably. For the first time in history, more people were employed in industry than worked on the land. The second concerns the `multiple national identities' of the constituent parts of the United Kingdom. Dr Hoppen's study of the histories of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the Empire reveals the existence of a variety of particular and overlapping national traditions flourishing alongside the increasingly influential structure of the unitary state. The third defining theme is that of `interlocking spheres' which the author uses to illuminate the formation of public culture in the period. This, he argues, was generated not by a series of influences operating independently from each other, but by a variety of intermeshed political, economic, scientific, literary and artistic developments. This original and authoritative book will define these pivotal forty years in British history for the next generation.