The Reasons For Growth Of Rapid Population Between...

The Reasons for Growth of Rapid Population between Seventeenth and Nineteenth Century Britain A wide variety of people living in the world have always been exposed at constant change and the evolution in population has always been a concern and issue by regimes and countries through out time, especially if it occurred within such short period of time. British economy and Europe underwent their greatest population transformation between the late 17th and the late 19th century. Especially, the growth of the English population in the eighteenth century has long interested economic historians and it subsequently provoked Thomas Malthus to debate about the relationship between population change and economics growth. Nonetheless, the structure†¦show more content†¦Despite these difficulties, the Cambridge Group’s leading members, Tony Wrigley and Roger Schofield have discerned a rise in the rate of English population increase in the second half of the eighteenth century and have emphasized fertility is the key mechanisms of population growth. The major reason for the growth of population in eighteenth century England can be accredited to a fall in mortality, which was particularly marked during the first half of the eighteenth century. The fall affected all socioeconomic groups and does not appear to have occurred for primarily economic reasons. In addition to an explanation involving the introduction of smallpox inoculation, the major hypothesis considered by Peter Razzell was that the significant improvement in domestic hygiene associated with the rebuilding of housing in brick and tile brought about a major reduction in mortality in the first half of the century. Revolutions are generally linked with upheaval in society, transforming a nation and its people. British agricultural revolution was the unprecedented increase in agricultural production in England due to increases in labour and land productivity that took place between 1750 and 1850. The Agricultural Revolution saw the invention of the reaper, which saved many back-breaking hors of labour in the fields and eliminated the fallow land from farming. Agricultural revolution allowed the agricultural output