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This book brings together ten original papers on the population dynamics and development of Western European port cities. In a substantial overview chapter, the editors examine ‘Port Development and the Demographic Dynamics of European Urbanisation’, setting in context the individual case studies that follow. These studies of Bremen, Cork, Genoa, Glasgow, Hamburg, Liverpool, Malmo, Nantes, Portsmouth, and Trieste provide an enhancement of our understanding of the particular socio-economic and demographic characteristics of port cities, and point to the existence of a particular port demographi ... More
Keywords: population dynamics, port cities, Port Development, Demographic Dynamics, European Urbanisation, port demographic regime, casual labour, cyclical employment, epidemic infection, socio-economic characteristics
Print publication date: 2001 | Print ISBN-13: 9780853234357 |
Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: June 2013 | DOI:10.5949/UPO9781846313837 |
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