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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sir Roderick Castle Floud FBA is a British economic historian and a leader in the field of anthropometric history. He has been provost of the London Guildhall University, vice-chancellor and president of the London Metropolitan University, acting dean of the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, and provost of Gresham College . He is the son of Bernard Floud MP.
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- The Economic History of Britain since 1700 (1981) (506)
- Health and Welfare during Industrialization (1997) (417)
- The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain (2004) (301)
- Height, Health and History: Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980 (1991) (291)
- The Changing Body (2011) (195)
- The Heights of Europeans Since 1750: a New Source for European Economic History (1984) (167)
- The Economics of Mortality in North America, 1650-1910: A Description Ofa Research Project (1982) (131)
- Poverty and Physical Stature: Evidence on the Standard of Living of London Boys 1770–1870 (1982) (106)
- Health, Height and Welfare: Britain 1700-1980 (1996) (86)
- Height, Weight, and Body Mass of the British Population Since 1820 (1998) (41)
- The rise of the service economy (2004) (36)
- Secular changes in American and British stature and nutrition. (1983) (33)
- The British Machine Tool Industry, 1850–1914 (1976) (32)
- Measuring historical heights‐shortcuts or the long way round: a reply to Komlos (1993) (26)
- Unemployment and the labour market, 1870–1939 (2004) (25)
- The people and the British economy, 1830-1914 (1997) (24)
- The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain. Volume III: Structural Change and Growth 1939-2000 (2004) (22)
- Failure followed by success or success followed by failure? A re-examination of British economic growth since 1949 (2004) (22)
- The service sector (2004) (21)
- Technical Education and Economic Performance: Britain, 1850–1914 * (1982) (21)
- The Power of the Past: Essays for Eric Hobsbawm. (1985) (20)
- Anthropometric Measures of Nutritional Status in Industrialized Societies: Europe and North America since 1750 (1993) (19)
- The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain. Volume II: Economic Maturity 1860-1939 (2004) (18)
- Living standards, 1860–1939 (2004) (18)
- The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain Volume I: Industrialisation 1700-1860 (2004) (16)
- How Many Calories? Food Availability in England and Wales in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2015) (16)
- The Adolescence of American Engineering Competition, 1860-1900 (1974) (15)
- The Bologna Process: Transforming European Higher Education (2006) (15)
- Health, Mortality and the Standard of Living in Europe and North America since 1700 (2014) (14)
- Diet, Health and Work Intensity in England and Wales, 1700-1914 (2010) (14)
- Quantitative History and People’s History: Two Methods in Conflict? (1984) (14)
- Height, health and history: Height, nutritional status and the historical record (1990) (14)
- Measuring the Transformation of the European Economies: Income, Health and Welfare (1984) (14)
- British industry in the interwar years (2004) (11)
- The Origins of Anthropometric History (2004) (10)
- Political Arithmetic: Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics (2014) (10)
- The financial services sector since 1945 (2004) (9)
- The Dimensions of Inequality: Height and Weight Variation in Britain, 1700-2000 (2002) (9)
- Essays in quantitative economic history (1974) (9)
- The Physical State of the British Working Class, 1870-1914: Evidence from Army Recruits (1985) (8)
- The British industrial decline (1999) (8)
- [Medicine and the decline in mortality: indicators of nutritional status] (1989) (8)
- Social Structure from the Early Census Returns (1968) (8)
- Changes in American and British Stature Since the Mid-Eighteenth Century: A Prelimanary Report on the Usefulness of Data on Height.. (1982) (8)
- British fiscal policy since 1939 (2004) (8)
- Introduction to "Health and Welfare during Industrialization" (1997) (7)
- International trade and British economic growth : from the eighteenth century to the present day (1998) (7)
- Technology in post-war Britain (2004) (7)
- Industrial relations and the economy (2004) (6)
- Further thoughts on the nutritional status of the British population (1993) (5)
- Impact of Europe (2004) (5)
- A Century of Human Capital by Education and Training. (1990) (5)
- The achievements of anthropometric history (2002) (5)
- The welfare state, income and living standards (2004) (5)
- The Origins of Anthropometric History: A Personal Memoir (2004) (4)
- The British Machine-Tool Industry, 1850-1914. (1977) (4)
- Food for Thought: Comparing Estimates of Food Availability in England and Wales, 1700-1914 (2014) (4)
- London higher : the establishment of higher education in London (1998) (4)
- THE INCIDENCE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND AND WALES (1979) (3)
- Standards of Living and Industrialisation (1989) (3)
- The Upheaval of War: Family, Work and Welfare in Europe, 1914-1918 (1990) (3)
- A tall story? The standard of living debate. (1983) (3)
- Technical Education 1850-1914: Speculations on Human Capital Formation (1984) (3)
- Humanism Challenges Materialism in Economics and Economic History (2016) (3)
- Making History Count: A Primer in Quantitative Methods for Historians (2003) (3)
- Quantitative history: Evolution of methods and techniques (1977) (3)
- Height, Health, and Mortality in Continental Europe, 1700-2100 (2011) (2)
- The Economic History of Britain since 1700; Vol. I: 1700-1860.@@@The Economic History of Britain since 1700. Vol. 2: 1860 to the 1970s. (1982) (2)
- The Biological Standard of Living on Three Continents: Further Explorations in Anthropometric History. (1996) (2)
- The Power of the Past: Essays for Eric Hobsbawm (2009) (2)
- The Economic History of Britain Since 1700, 2nd ed. Vol. 3, 1939-1992. (1995) (2)
- Height, health and history: Conclusions (1990) (2)
- Front matter to "Health and Welfare during Industrialization" (1997) (2)
- The British Machine Tool Industry, 1850–1914: The engineering industries (1976) (2)
- An Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Historians (2nd ed.). (1983) (1)
- Jean-Pierre Dormois and Michael Dintenfass, eds. The British Industrial Decline. (Routledge Explorations in Economic History.) New York: Routledge. 1999. Pp. xii, 234. $55.00. ISBN 0-415-17231-4. (1999) (1)
- The British Machine Tool Industry, 1850–1914: The machine tool industry: structure and explanation (1976) (1)
- Research in Economic History, Supplement I, 1977: Recent Developments in the Study of Business and Economic History: Essays in Memory of Herman E. Krooss. (1979) (1)
- Economic Change in Precolonial Africa: Senegambia in the Era of the Slave Trade@@@Economic Change in Precolonial Africa: Supplementary Evidence@@@Precolonial Africa: An Economic and Social History (1977) (1)
- The British Machine Tool Industry, 1850-1914 (1977) (1)
- The Higher Education White Paper: Views from Around the Sector (2003) (1)
- The metal-working machine tool industry in England, 1850-1914, with special reference to Greenwood and Batley Ltd (1970) (1)
- The Changing Body: Investigating the interaction of biological, demographic, and economic variables from fragmentary data (2011) (1)
- The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere (Book) (2003) (1)
- The British Machine Tool Industry, 1850–1914: Greenwood and Batley: history, records and methods (1976) (0)
- Uncertainty and Risk (1997) (0)
- G. Clark, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of The World , Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ (2007) xii + 420 pp (2008) (0)
- Height, health and history: Nutritional status and physical growth in Britain, 1750–1980 (1990) (0)
- Peter Mathias and John A. Davis, eds. International Trade and British Economic Growth from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day. (The Nature of Industrialization, vol. 5.) Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers. 1996. Pp. vi, 169. $42.95. ISBN 0-631-18116-4. (1998) (0)
- The British Machine Tool Industry, 1850–1914: Introduction (1976) (0)
- The Analysis of Long-term Trends in Nutritional Status, Mortality, and Economic Growth (2011) (0)
- Economic History and the Social Sciences. Problems of Methodology. (1972) (0)
- Book reviews (2009) (0)
- Steam Power and British Industrialization to 1860. By G. N. von Tunzelmann. New York, Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp. xii + 344. $31.00 (1979) (0)
- Professor James Tanner (1920-2010) (2010) (0)
- The preliminary analysis of data, II: summary measures (2013) (0)
- Height, health and history: Height, nutritional status and the environment (1990) (0)
- Dintenfass Michael. The Decline of Industrial Britain, 1870–1980. New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall. 1992. Pp. xi, 94. $9.95 paper. (1993) (0)
- 9. Changes in the productivity of labour in the British machine tool industry, 1856-1900 (2015) (0)
- Pollard Sidney. Britain's Prime and Britain's Decline: The British Economy 1870–1914. London: Edward Arnold; distributed by Routledge, Chapman & Hall, New York, N. Y. 1989. Pp. xii, 324. $69.50. (1990) (0)
- The British Machine Tool Industry, 1850–1914: List of works cited (1976) (0)
- Inference from military height data (1990) (0)
- The British Machine Tool Industry, 1850–1914: International trade in machine tools (1976) (0)
- The American Experience of Technophysio Evolution (2011) (0)
- The British Machine Tool Industry, 1850–1914: Greenwood and Batley: markets and prices (1976) (0)
- The Human Body in Britain: Past and Future (2006) (0)
- The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain 2 Volume Paperback Set (2014) (0)
- The British Machine Tool Industry, 1850–1914: Conclusion (1976) (0)
- Front matter, acknowledgments, table of contents (2011) (0)
- Households and Communities (1997) (0)
- [Not Available]. (1989) (0)
- Book Review: Barges and Capitalism: Passenger Transportation in the Dutch Economy, 1632–1839 (1981) (0)
- Aldcroft Derek H. and Freeman Michael J., editors. Transport in the Industrial Revolution. Dover N.H.: Manchester University Press. 1983. pp. vii, 227. $23.50. (1984) (0)
- Food and Agriculture (1997) (0)
- The British Machine Tool Industry, 1850–1914: Preface (1976) (0)
- List of Publications on the Economic History of Great Britain and Ireland.: PUBLISHED IN 1966 (1968) (0)
- The Open Economy (1997) (0)
- The British Machine Tool Industry, 1850–1914: The technical history of machine tools, 1850–1914 (1976) (0)
- James Nasmyth and the Bridgewater Foundry: A Study of Enterpreneurship in the Early Engineering Industry. By J. A. Cantrell. Manchester: Manchester University Press for the Chetham Society, 1985. Pp. viii, 279. £25.00 (1986) (0)
- Computers and data processing equipment page (2013) (0)
- Economics and population growth: a comment. (1983) (0)
- Technophysio Evolution and Human Health in England and Wales since 1700 (2011) (0)
- Health, mortality and the standard of living : introduction (2014) (0)
- Height, health and history: Regional and occupational differentials in British heights (1990) (0)
- Sociology and History: Partnership, Rivalry, or Mutual Incomprehension? (2005) (0)
- Michael Ball and David Sunderland. An Economic History of London, 1800-1914. New York: Routledge. 2001. Pp. x, 470. $110.00. ISBN 0-415-24691-1. (2003) (0)
- The Changing Body: Conclusion (2011) (0)
- The changing body: technophysio evolution in Britain, Europe and the United States since 1700. Our changing bodies: 300 years of technophysio evolution (2006) (0)
- Greenwood and Batley Ltd: Machine Tool Production, 1856-1900 (2006) (0)
- Height, health and history: Long-term trends in nutritional status (1990) (0)
- Book Reviews (1999) (0)
- Marxist History@@@The Power of the Past: Essays for Eric Hobsbawn (1986) (0)
- Income and Wealth (1997) (0)
- History by Numbers: An Introduction to Quantitative Approaches (2002) (0)
- Inference from samples of military records (1990) (0)
- What is Economic History (1988) (0)
- Craig Muldrew, Food, energy and the creation of industriousness: work and material culture in agrarian England, 1550–1780 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xvii + 355. 3 figs. 68 tabs. ISBN 9780521881852 Hbk. £60/$99) (2012) (0)
- Relationships Between Variables (2013) (0)
- The British Machine Tool Industry, 1850–1914: Greenwood and Batley: production (1976) (0)
- Income distribution in historical perspective: Y. S. Brenner, Hartmut Kaelble and Mark Thomas (Eds), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xv + 261. £30.00) (1992) (0)
- Not Making, Digging, or Growing (1997) (0)
- The problem of imperfect data (2013) (0)
- Mary E.Cox, Hunger in war & peace: women & children in Germany, 1914–1924 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. vi+383. 75 figs. 34 plates. 25 tabs. ISBN 9780198820116 Hbk. £70.00) (2020) (0)
- The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause. By Julian L. Simon (Timur Kuran, editor). Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2001. 240 pp. Tables, graphs, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN 0-472-11097-7 (2001) (0)
- The Changing Body: References (2011) (0)
- Essays in Quantitative History. (1975) (0)
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