An early statistical demography of European war losses, giving a combined Crimean War death total of 630,000 across all combatants, the highest of the several named totals located for the war. Its strength is being an early, dedicated statistical study of the war's toll rather than a passing mention. Its limit is that it predates modern archival access to Russian and Ottoman military records, so its national breakdowns cannot be checked against later scholarship the way Figes' or Clodfelter's more recent work can.
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An early, dedicated statistical study of European war losses by named authors, placed below the modern peer reviewed studies because it predates the archival access later scholarship draws on and was not itself peer reviewed in the modern sense. NotesCited for the upper bound of the Crimean War's total death toll among the named published estimates.
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AuthorSamuel Dumas and Knud Otto Vedel-Petersen
PublisherClarendon Press
Publication Year1923
Source TypeDemographic study
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This source backs 9 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Wars & Conflicts, 2 claims: 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
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