Lord Mount-Edgcumbe as private surgeon. During these travels he saw some fighting in the Sicilian rebellion of 1847-48, and gained experience in the treatment of the wounded there; and again in the attack on Rome by the French troops under General Oudinot in 1849. In that year he also took the degree of M. D., Rome. On his return to England he resigned his naval commission, and shortly afterwar...

This paper provides historical context for contemporary discourses on landownership, notably the changing scale of absentee landownership and foreign ownership since 1849. Trends in landownership since European occupation of one of the most agriculturally productive regions in south east Australia, the Lachlan River catchment, are examined at regional, shire and district scales. Evolution of te...

The Trade-off between Fertility and Education: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition The trade-off between child quantity and education is a crucial ingredient of unified growth models that explain the transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern growth. We present first evidence that such a trade-off indeed existed before the demographic transition, exploiting a unique census-base...