Heyberger, Laurent, Santé et développement économique en France au xixe siècle. Essai d’histoire anthropométrique
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Cormac Ó Gráda, « Heyberger, Laurent, Santé et développement économique en France au xixe siècle. Essai d’histoire anthropométrique », Histoire & mesure, ID : 10.4000/histoiremesure.1841
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Laurent Heyberger’s brief study (105 pages of text, plus appendices) represents a modest but very worthwhile contribution to anthropometric history. As he notes, this is a field now dominated by Anglophone cliometricians, but it was both pioneered and revived by French scholars. The study offers both a useful summary of recent literature in the field and a contribution to that literature. Focusing on the first half of the nineteenth century, and using the mean heights of military recruits, He...