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Back to the Future: the Great Mortality Crises

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Human history from the Neolithic Revolution until recently has been haunted by great morality crises. They have been the concern of Thomas Robert Malthus (1959) in the First Essay (originally published in 1798); of a scientific committee of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) which published The Great Mortalities (Charbonneau and Larose 1979); and of an influential article (Watkins and Menken 1985); these crises also appeared throughout Wrigley and Schofield’s (1981) Population History of England and Le Roy Ladurie’s (1974) The Peasants of Languedoc.

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Caldwell, J.C. (2006). Back to the Future: the Great Mortality Crises. In: Demographic Transition Theory. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4498-4_16

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