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Growing Incomes, Growing People In Nineteenth-Century Tasmania
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Inwood, K and Maxwell-Stewart, HJ and Oxley, D and Stankovich, J, Growing Incomes, Growing People In Nineteenth-Century Tasmania, Australian Economic History Review, 55, (2) pp. 187-211. ISSN 0004-8992 (2015) [Refereed Article]
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© 2015 Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand and Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd
Abstract
The earliest measures of well-being for Europeans born in the Pacific
region are heights and wages in Tasmania. Evidence of rising stature
in middle decades of the nineteenth century survives multiple checks
for measurement, compositional, and selection bias. The challenge
to health and stature seen in other settler societies (the ‘antebellum
paradox’) is not visible here. We sketch an interpretation for the
simultaneous rise of Tasmanian stature and per capita gross domestic
product based on relatively slow population growth and urbanisation,
a decline in food cost per family member available from a
worker’s wage, and early recognition of the importance of public
health.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Anthropometric history, height, history of health, historical criminology |
| Research Division: | History and Archaeology |
| Research Group: | Historical Studies |
| Research Field: | Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology |
| Author: | Maxwell-Stewart, HJ (Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart) |
| Author: | Stankovich, J (Dr Jim Stankovich) |
| ID Code: | 102029 |
| Year Published: | 2015 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 3 |
| Deposited By: | Humanities |
| Deposited On: | 2015-07-23 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-03-08 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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