Population and economy : population and history from the traditional to the modern world / edited by Robert I. Rotberg and Theodore K. Rabb ; guest editors, Roger S. Schofield and E. Anthony Wrigley ; contributors, Michael Anderson [and others].

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986.

219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographic references

Introduction / Roger S. Schofield and E. Anthony Wrigley -- Through a glass darkly : The population history of England as an experiment in history / Roger S. Schofield -- Historical demography after the population history of England / Michael Anderson -- English population, wages, and prices, 1541-1913 / Peter H. Lindert -- Population homeostasis and English demographic history / Ronald Lee -- The population and economy of preindustrisl Netherlands / Jan de Vries -- Urban growth and agricultural change : England and the Continent in the early modern period / E. Anthony Wrigley -- Escaping from constraints : the industrial revolution in a Malthusian context / Brinley Thomas -- Time and space, hoofs and grain : the seasonality of marriage in England / Ann Kussmaul.