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"This volume brings together nine original papers on the population dynamics and development of Western European port-cities. In a substantial overview chapter Professors Lawton and Lee examine ""Port Development and the Demographic Dynamics of European Urbanisation"", setting in context the individual case studies which follow. These studies - of Cork, Genoa, Glasgow, Hamburg, Liverpool, Malmo, Nantes, Portsmouth and Trieste - provide an important enhancement of our understanding of the particular socio-economic and demographic characteristics of port-cities, and point to the existence of a particular port demographic regime. They emphasise the central importance of the high proportion of unskilled and casual labour, the susceptibility of cyclical employment, the inflated risk of epidemic infection, and other demographic and economic factors specific to port-cities. The focus of this book on a port typology enables it to make a major contribution to the analysis of urban population dynamics in the period 1750-1939."

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Richard Lawton was Emeritus Professor of Geography in the University of Liverpool. Robert Lee is Emeritus Professor at the Department of History, University of Liverpool.

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