Download or read book Death and the Metropolis written by John Landers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful analysis of demographic patterns in London over the 'long eighteenth century', concentrating on mortality but also including data on marital fertility, population structure and migration. The evidence indicates that mortality in London was generally much higher than in other settlements in England.