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Why Mr Fax got it wrong

Roy Porter

  • English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580-1837 by E.A. Wrigley and R.S. Davies
  • The Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan and the Malthusian Trap by Alan Macfarlane

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Roy Porter, who died in March 2002, was a regular, much admired and much envied contributor to the LRB: he was the author of an astonishing number of books, including London: A Social History (1994), The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (1997) and Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (2000).

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