Anthropometric history explained

Anthropometric history should not be confused with History of anthropometry.

Anthropometric history is the study of the history of human height and weight.[1] [2] The concept was formulated in 1989 although it has historical roots.[3] In the 1830s, Adolphe Quetelet and Louis R. Villermé studied the physical stature of populations.[4] [5] In the 1960s, French historians analyzed the relationship between socio-economic variables and human height.[6] Anthropometric history was established as field of study in the late 1970s when economic historians Robert Fogel, John Komlos,[7] [8] Richard Steckel and other academics began to study the history of human physical stature and its relationship to economic development.[9] A branch of cliometrics, it uses trends and cross-sectional patterns in human physical stature to understand historical processes.[10] [11]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Tanner, JM. A history of the study of human growth. registration. Cambridge University Press. 1981. 9780521134026. 755936888.
  2. News: Measures of Progress and Other Tall Stories: From income to anthropometrics - World Economics. Snowdon. Brian. 2005. World Economics. 2018-10-31. 2. 6. 87–136. en. 2018-10-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20181031215045/https://www.worldeconomics.com/Journal/Papers/Measures%20of%20Progress%20and%20%20Other%20Tall%20Stories.details?ID=209. dead.
  3. Book: KOMLOS, JOHN . Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy: An Anthropometric History . 1989 . Princeton University Press. j.ctt7zv6wj .
  4. Book: Villermé, LR. Mémoire sur la taille de l'homme en France. Annales d'Hygiène Publique et de Médicine Légale. 1829. 1. 551–559.
  5. Book: Quetelet, A. Recherches sur la loi de croissance de l'homme. Annales d'Hygiène Publique et de Médicine Légale. 1831. 6. 89–113.
  6. Ladurie. Emmanuel Le Roy. Bernageau. Nicole. Pasquet. Yvonne. 1969. Le Conscrit et l'ordinateur: Perspectives de recherches sur les archives militaires du XIXe siècle francais.. Studi Storici. 10. 2. 260–308. 20562980.
  7. The Height and Weight of West Point Cadets: Dietary Change in Antebellum America. The Journal of Economic History. 2122037 . Komlos . John . 1987 . 47 . 4 . 897–927 . 10.1017/S002205070004986X . 153508673 .
  8. Komlos . John . 1998 . Shrinking in a Growing Economy? The Mystery of Physical Stature during the Industrial Revolution . The Journal of Economic History . en . 58 . 3 . 779–802 . 10.1017/S0022050700021161 . 3557631 . 1471-6372.
  9. Fogel. Robert W.. Engerman. Stanley L.. Trussell. James. Floud. Roderick. Pope. Clayne L.. Wimmer. Larry T.. 1978. The Economics of Mortality in North America, 1650–1910: A Description of a Research Project. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History. en. 11. 2. 75–108. 10.1080/01615440.1978.9955221. 11614602. 33858967 . 0161-5440.
  10. News: Measures of Progress and Other Tall Stories: From income to anthropometrics . Snowdon. Brian. 2005. World Economics. 2. 6. 87–136. en .
  11. Komlos . John . 1987 . The Height and Weight of West Point Cadets: Dietary Change in Antebellum America . The Journal of Economic History . en . 47 . 4 . 897–927 . 10.1017/S002205070004986X . 153508673 . 1471-6372.

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