Anthropometric history

Not to 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]

  1. ^ Tanner, JM (1981). A history of the study of human growth. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521134026. OCLC 755936888.
  2. ^ Snowdon, Brian (2005). "Measures of Progress and Other Tall Stories: From income to anthropometrics - World Economics". World Economics. Vol. 6, no. 2. pp. 87–136. Archived from the original on 2018-10-31. Retrieved 2018-10-31.
  3. ^ KOMLOS, JOHN (1989). Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy: An Anthropometric History. Princeton University Press. JSTOR j.ctt7zv6wj.
  4. ^ Villermé, LR (1829). Mémoire sur la taille de l'homme en France. Annales d'Hygiène Publique et de Médicine Légale. Vol. 1. pp. 551–559.
  5. ^ Quetelet, A (1831). Recherches sur la loi de croissance de l'homme. Annales d'Hygiène Publique et de Médicine Légale. Vol. 6. pp. 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. JSTOR 20562980.
  7. ^ Komlos, John (1987). "The Height and Weight of West Point Cadets: Dietary Change in Antebellum America". The Journal of Economic History. 47 (4): 897–927. doi:10.1017/S002205070004986X. JSTOR 2122037. S2CID 153508673.
  8. ^ Komlos, John (1998). "Shrinking in a Growing Economy? The Mystery of Physical Stature during the Industrial Revolution". The Journal of Economic History. 58 (3): 779–802. doi:10.1017/S0022050700021161. ISSN 1471-6372. S2CID 3557631.
  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. 11 (2): 75–108. doi:10.1080/01615440.1978.9955221. ISSN 0161-5440. PMID 11614602. S2CID 33858967.
  10. ^ Snowdon, Brian (2005). "Measures of Progress and Other Tall Stories: From income to anthropometrics". World Economics. Vol. 6, no. 2. pp. 87–136.
  11. ^ Komlos, John (1987). "The Height and Weight of West Point Cadets: Dietary Change in Antebellum America". The Journal of Economic History. 47 (4): 897–927. doi:10.1017/S002205070004986X. ISSN 1471-6372. S2CID 153508673.