The interest generated by the anthropometric research program since the pioneering
publications of the late 1970s has been predicated to a considerable degree on the …

The systematic study of human physical stature reaches back into the 18 th century.
However, until French historians began to explore the socio-economic correlates of human …

The contributions included in this issue celebrate the 22d-year anniversary of the fall 1982
issue of Social Science History (vol. 6, no. 4) devoted to “Trends in Nutrition, Labor Welfare …

Between 1830 and 1860 the United States experienced rapid economic growth but
declining stature and rising mortality. Debate has centered on whether the American diet …

Historians may make misleading inferences from historical height data based on military
records because before universal conscription many armies had minimum height …

This article examines declining adult human stature in the nineteenth century in three
countries: the United States, England, and the Netherlands. While this was not …

We investigate the physical stature of Georgia convicts, both white and black, born in the first
half of the 19th century. We confirm the existence of theantebellum puzzle, the decline in …

This study examines and confirms Kuznets'“Inverted U”-hypothesis of income distribution on
the basis of the physical stature of Bavarian conscripts in the first half of the nineteenth …

What determined regional height differences in the 19th century? We compare
anthropometric evidence with production estimates of different food products and other …

We investigate the relationship between height and some economic-development indicators
in modern Spain by means of a recently constructed times series of data on conscripts. We …