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Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity

By: Robert W. Fogel

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Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity

By: Robert W. Fogel

Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity is a collection of essays by Nobel laureate Robert W. Fogel on the theory and measurement of ageing and health-related variables. Dr Fogel analyzes historic data on height, health, nutrition and life expectation to provide a clearer understanding of the past, illustrate the costs and benefits of using such measures and note the difficulties of drawing conclusions from data intended for different purposes. Dr Fogel explains how the basic findings of the anthropometric approach to historical analysis have helped reinterpret the nature of economic growth. Rising life expectancies and lower disease rates in countries experiencing economic growth highlight the importance of improving nutrition and agricultural productivity.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139561227

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9781139561228

Student Activism and Civil Rights in Mississippi

Protest Politics and the Struggle for Racial Justice, 1960-1965

By: Robert W. Fogel

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Student Activism and Civil Rights in Mississippi

Protest Politics and the Struggle for Racial Justice, 1960-1965

By: Robert W. Fogel

Robert William Fogel was in the vanguard of those revisionists who in the mid--twentieth century challenged the prevailing historical canon on American slavery. The "slavery debates" encompassed a reexamination of almost every aspect of American slavery and became one front in a battle waged over the place of cliometrics -- the use of quantitative data and statistical methods to analyze historical problems. Fogel and Stanley Engerman's 1974 groundbreaking book, Time on the Cross, applied cliometrics to the study of slavery, revealing it to be a profitable and efficient labor system, and their book remains a fiercely debated work. Now, in an enlightening memoir, Fogel chronicles the controversies surrounding American slavery over four decades and the emergence of a new generation of intellectual and political historians who questioned the progressive synthesis. The Slavery Debates is an informative summary of the literature on the economics of American slavery, offering a valuable glimpse into one of the most interesting chapters of the historical profession.

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LSU Press

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0807131997

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9780807131992

The Changing Body

Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700

By: Roderick Floud,Robert W. Fogel,Bernard Harris,Sok Chul Hong

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The Changing Body

Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700

By: Roderick Floud,Robert W. Fogel,Bernard Harris,Sok Chul Hong

Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists, human biologists and demographers have linked the changing size, shape and capability of the human body to economic and demographic change. This fascinating and groundbreaking book presents an accessible introduction to the field of anthropometric history, surveying the causes and consequences of changes in health and mortality, diet and the disease environment in Europe and the United States since 1700. It examines how we define and measure health and nutrition as well as key issues such as whether increased longevity contributes to greater productivity or, instead, imposes burdens on society through the higher costs of healthcare and pensions. The result is a major contribution to economic and social history with important implications for today's developing world and the health trends of the future.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139500805

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9781139500807

Which Road to the Past?

Two Views of History

By: Robert William Fogel,Geoffrey Rudolph Elton

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Which Road to the Past?

Two Views of History

By: Robert William Fogel,Geoffrey Rudolph Elton

Compares statistical and traditional approaches to the study of history and discusses categories of evidence, standards of proof, and the proper subject matter for history.

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Yale University Press

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0300032781

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9780300032789

America's History, Volume 1: To 1877

By: James A. Henretta,Rebecca Edwards,Robert O. Self

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America's History, Volume 1: To 1877

By: James A. Henretta,Rebecca Edwards,Robert O. Self

With fresh interpretations from two new authors, wholly reconceived themes, and a wealth of cutting-edge new scholarship, the seventh edition of America's History is designed to work perfectly with the way you teach the survey today. Building on the book's hallmark strengths — balance, comprehensiveness, and explanatory power — as well as its outstanding visuals and extensive primary-source features, authors James Henretta, Rebecca Edwards, and Robert Self have shaped America's History into the ideal resource for survey classes.

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Macmillan

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0312387911

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9780312387914

America's History, Combined Volume

By: James A. Henretta,Rebecca Edwards,Robert O. Self

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America's History, Combined Volume

By: James A. Henretta,Rebecca Edwards,Robert O. Self

America's History helps AP students: Grasp vital themes: The seventh edition emphasizes political culture and political economy to help students understand the ways in which society, culture, politics, and the economy inform one another. Understand periodization: America's History's unique seven-part structure, which organizes history into distinct eras, introduces students to periodization and helps them understand cause and effect, identify historical continuities, and track change over time. Develop the skills they need to succeed: America's History's hallmark analytical narrative and pedagogy help students synthesize what they've learned and interpret history for themselves."--Back cover.

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Macmillan

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031238789X

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9780312387891

The Panama Canal

By: Robert Aguirre

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The Panama Canal

By: Robert Aguirre

The relationship between straits and interoceanic canals has always been ambiguous. Unlike straits, interoceanic canals are neither natural nor subject to a universal legal regime like the Law of the Sea. However, straits and interoceanic canals share comparable historical experiences due to their geographic similarities. Suspending interest in a purely legal analysis, The Panama Canal lets logic yield to experience and considers the Panama Canal as an “artificial strait.” The volume recasts the dynamic events that have changed the Panama Canal in the context of three interactive elements: environments, flows, and territoriality. Cleverly deciphering from history how changes in one element led to changes in another, The Panama Canal suggests a considerably new perspective for viewing the canal’s past and future.

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BRILL

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9047430727

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9789047430728

The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100

Europe, America, and the Third World

By: Robert William Fogel

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The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100

Europe, America, and the Third World

By: Robert William Fogel

Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's compelling study, first published in 2004, examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. Throughout most of human history, chronic malnutrition has been the norm. During the past three centuries, however, a synergy between improvements in productive technology and in human physiology has enabled humans to more than double their average longevity and to increase their average body size by over 50 per cent. Larger, healthier humans have contributed to the acceleration of economic growth and technological change, resulting in reduced economic inequality, declining hours of work and a corresponding increase in leisure time. Increased longevity has also brought increased demand for health care. Professor Fogel argues that health care should be viewed as the growth industry of the twenty-first century and systems of financing it should be reformed. His book will be essential reading for all those interested in economics, demography, history and health care policy.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139451510

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Political Arithmetic

Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics

By: Robert William Fogel,Enid M. Fogel,Mark Guglielmo,Nathaniel Grotte

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Political Arithmetic

Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics

By: Robert William Fogel,Enid M. Fogel,Mark Guglielmo,Nathaniel Grotte

We take for granted today that the assessments, measurements, and forecasts of economists are crucial to the decision-making of governments and businesses alike. But less than a century ago that wasn’t the case—economists simply didn’t have the necessary information or statistical tools to understand the ever more complicated modern economy. With Political Arithmetic, Nobel Prize–winning economist Robert Fogel and his collaborators tell the story of economist Simon Kuznets, the founding of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the creation of the concept of GNP, which for the first time enabled us to measure the performance of entire economies. The book weaves together the many strands of political and economic thought and historical pressures that together created the demand for more detailed economic thinking—Progressive-era hopes for activist government, the production demands of World War I, Herbert Hoover’s interest in business cycles as President Harding’s commerce secretary, and the catastrophic economic failures of the Great Depression—and shows how, through trial and error, measurement and analysis, economists such as Kuznets rose to the occasion and in the process built a discipline whose knowledge could be put to practical use in everyday decision-making. The product of a lifetime of studying the workings of economies and skillfully employing the tools of economics, Political Arithmetic is simultaneously a history of a key period of economic thought and a testament to the power of applied ideas.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226256618

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9780226256610

Time On The Cross

The Economics Of American Negro Slavery

By: Robert William Fogel,Stanley L Engerman

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Time On The Cross

The Economics Of American Negro Slavery

By: Robert William Fogel,Stanley L Engerman

Resource added for the Economics "10-809-195" courses.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393312186

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9780393312188

Dictionary of American History

Supplement

By: Robert H. Ferrell,Joan Hoff

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Dictionary of American History

Supplement

By: Robert H. Ferrell,Joan Hoff

In 757 articles, of which 469 are on new topics, this supplement attempts to cover recent monumental changes in American civilization from the impact of foreign affairs, through domestic political events, Supreme Court decisions, medical and scientific discoveries, social changes, popular cultural evolution, and religious developments.

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Charles Scribner's Sons

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0684195798

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9780684195797

Without Consent Or Contract

The Rise and Fall of American Slavery

By: Robert William Fogel

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The Rise and Fall of American Slavery

By: Robert William Fogel

Norton paperback. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 487-523.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393312194

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Book's by Robert W. Fogel

Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity

Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity

Student Activism and Civil Rights in Mississippi

Student Activism and Civil Rights in Mississippi

The Changing Body

The Changing Body

Which Road to the Past?

Which Road to the Past?

America's History, Volume 1: To 1877

America's History, Volume 1: To 1877

America's History, Combined Volume

America's History, Combined Volume

The Panama Canal

The Panama Canal

The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100

The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100

Political Arithmetic

Political Arithmetic

Time On The Cross

Time On The Cross

Dictionary of American History

Dictionary of American History

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Without Consent Or Contract

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