| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
x, 580 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
Family structure in seventeenth-century Andover, Massachusetts / Phillip J. Greven, Jr. -- Family, household, and the Industrial Revolution / Michael Anderson -- Urbanization and the malleable household: an examination of boarding and lodging in American families / John Modell and Tamara K. Hareven -- The fall in household size and the rise of the primary individual in the United States / Frances E. Kobrin -- Parental power and marriage patterns: an analysis of historical trends in Hingham, Massachusetts / Daniel Scott Smith -- Marital selection and business in Massachusetts merchant families, 1700-1900 / Peter Dobkin Hall -- Divorce and the changing status of women in eighteenth-century Massachusetts / Nancy F. Cott -- Divorce in the Progressive Era / William L. O'Neill -- Infancy and childhood in the Plymouth colony / John Demos -- The stages of life / Joseph F. Kett -- Social change and transitions to adulthood in historical perspective / John Modell, Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., and Theodore Hershberg -- Old age in early New England / John Demos -- The planter's wife: the experience of white women in seventeenth-century Maryland / Louis Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh -- Women's work and European fertility patterns / Louise A. Tilly, Joan W. Scott, and Miriam Cohen -- The cult of true womanhood: 1820-1860 / Barbara Welter -- The female world of love and ritual: relations between women in nineteenth-century America / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg -- The Puritans and sex / Edmund S. Morgan -- The spermatic economy: a nineteenth-century view of sexuality / G. J. Barker-Benfield -- What ought to be and what was: women's sexuality in the nineteenth century / Carl N. Degler -- The dating of the American sexual revolution: evidence and interpretation / Daniel Scott Smith -- The beginnings of the Afro-American family in Maryland / Allan Kulikoff -- Persistent myths about the Afro-American family / Herbert G. Gutman -- A mother's wages: income earning among Italian and black women, 1896-1911 / Elizabeth H. Pleck -- Family history and demographic transition / Robert V. Wells -- Factors in the decline of farm family fertility in the United States: some preliminary research results / Richard A. Easterlin -- Angels' heads and weeping willows: death in early America / Maris A. Vinovskis. |
| Subject |
Families -- United States -- History.
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| ISBN |
031202312X: $14.95 |
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9780312023126 |
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