- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- 1 Standards of Living in Eighteenth-Century China: Regional Differences, Temporal Trends, and Incomplete Evidence
- 2 Farm Labour Productivity in Jiangnan, 1620–1850
- 3 Wages, Inequality, and Pre-Industrial Growth in Japan, 1727–1894
- 4 Agriculture, Labour, and the Standard of Living in Eighteenth-Century India
- 5 Real Wages in Europe and Asia: A First Look at the Long-Term Patterns
- 6 Sketching the Rise of Real Inequality in Early Modern Europe
- 7 What Happened to the Standard of Living Before the Industrial Revolution? New Evidence from the Western Part of the Netherlands
- 8 Economic Growth, Human Capital Formation and Consumption in Western Europe Before 1800
- 9 Health and Nutrition in the Pre-Industrial Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe
- 10 The Burden of Grandeur: Physical and Economic Well-Being of the Russian Population in the Eighteenth Century
- 11 Maternal Mortality as an Indicator of the Standard of Living in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Slavonia
- 12 The Standard of Living in Denmark in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
- 13 Short-Term Demographic Changes in Relation to Economic Fluctuations: The Case of Tuscany During the Pre-Transitional Period
- 14 New Evidence on the Standard of Living in Sweden During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Long-Term Development of the Demographic Response to Short-Term Economic Stress
- 15 Individuals and Communities Facing Economic Stress: A Comparison of Two Rural Areas in Nineteenth-Century Belgium
- 16 Living Standards in Liaoning, 1749–1909: Evidence from Demographic Outcomes
- 17 Demographic Responses to Short-Term Economic Stress in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Rural Japan: Evidence from Two Northeastern Villages
- References
- Index
Maternal Mortality as an Indicator of the Standard of Living in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Slavonia
Maternal Mortality as an Indicator of the Standard of Living in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Slavonia
- Chapter:
- (p.277) 11 Maternal Mortality as an Indicator of the Standard of Living in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Slavonia
- Source:
- Living Standards in the Past
- Author(s):
Eugene A. Hammel
Aaron Gullickson
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This study of maternal mortality on the Croatian-Bosnian border in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries shows that the chance of death in childbirth was sensitive to major changes in the social and economic system. Death was more likely when men were called to military duty, in military rather than civil parishes even in peacetime, and over time as wage labour increased and as economies of scale were lost as the joint household system decayed. The unifying factor in all of these influences is the withdrawal of male labour from family farming, placing greater burdens on pregnant and parturient women and on those other women who might nurture them.
Keywords: Croatia, family systems, household economy, kinship support, maternal mortality, monetization
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- 1 Standards of Living in Eighteenth-Century China: Regional Differences, Temporal Trends, and Incomplete Evidence
- 2 Farm Labour Productivity in Jiangnan, 1620–1850
- 3 Wages, Inequality, and Pre-Industrial Growth in Japan, 1727–1894
- 4 Agriculture, Labour, and the Standard of Living in Eighteenth-Century India
- 5 Real Wages in Europe and Asia: A First Look at the Long-Term Patterns
- 6 Sketching the Rise of Real Inequality in Early Modern Europe
- 7 What Happened to the Standard of Living Before the Industrial Revolution? New Evidence from the Western Part of the Netherlands
- 8 Economic Growth, Human Capital Formation and Consumption in Western Europe Before 1800
- 9 Health and Nutrition in the Pre-Industrial Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe
- 10 The Burden of Grandeur: Physical and Economic Well-Being of the Russian Population in the Eighteenth Century
- 11 Maternal Mortality as an Indicator of the Standard of Living in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Slavonia
- 12 The Standard of Living in Denmark in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
- 13 Short-Term Demographic Changes in Relation to Economic Fluctuations: The Case of Tuscany During the Pre-Transitional Period
- 14 New Evidence on the Standard of Living in Sweden During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Long-Term Development of the Demographic Response to Short-Term Economic Stress
- 15 Individuals and Communities Facing Economic Stress: A Comparison of Two Rural Areas in Nineteenth-Century Belgium
- 16 Living Standards in Liaoning, 1749–1909: Evidence from Demographic Outcomes
- 17 Demographic Responses to Short-Term Economic Stress in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Rural Japan: Evidence from Two Northeastern Villages
- References
- Index
