Biotechnology and the burden of age-related diseases / Robert W. Fogel -- Extending the reach of anthropometric history to the distant past / Richard H. Steckel -- Insecurity, safety nets, and self-help in Victorian and Edwardian Britain / George R. Boyer -- The evolution of schooling in the...

These classic studies of the history of economic change in 19th- and 20th-century United States, Canada, and British West Indies examine national product; capital stock and wealth; and fertility, health, and mortality. "A 'must have' in the library of the serious economic historian."—Samuel...