| Description |
xii, 623 pages : illustrations, maps. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
A publication of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure |
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Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.
Publication.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: the history of the family / by Peter Laslett -- 2. Some demographic determinants of average household size: an analytic approach / by Thomas K. Burch -- 3. The evolution of the family / by Jack Goody -- [Part 1] England -- 4. Mean household size in England since the sixteenth century / by Peter Laslett -- 5. Mean household size in England from printed sources / by Richard Wall -- 6. A note on the household structure of mid-nineteenth-century York in comparative perspective / by W.A. Armstrong -- 7. Household structure and the industrial revolution: mid-nineteenth-century Preston in comparative perspective / by Michael Anderson -- [Part 2] Western Europe -- 8. A southern French village: the inhabitants of Montplaisant in 1644 / by Jean Noël Biraben -- 9. Size and structure of households in a northern French village between 1836 and 1861 / by Yves Blayo -- 10. Household and family in Tuscany in 1427 / by Christiane Klapisch -- 11. Structure of household and family in Corsica, 1769-71 / by Jacques Dupâquier, Louis Jadin -- 12. Variations in the size and structure of the household in the United Provinces of the Netherlands in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / by A.M. van der Woude -- 13. Size of households before the industrial revolution: the case of Liège in 1801 / by Étienne Hélin -- [Part 3] Serbia -- 14. The zadruga as process / by E.A. Hammel -- 15. Houseful and household in an eighteenth-century Balkan city: a tabular analysis of the listing of the Serbian sector of Belgrade in 1733-4 / by Peter Laslett, Marilyn Clarke -- 16. Town and countryside in Serbia in the nineteenth-century, social and household structure as reflected in the census of 1863 / by Joel M. Halpern -- [Part 4] Japan -- 17. Small families, small households, and residential instability: town and city in "pre-modern" Japan / by Robert J. Smith -- 18. Size of household in Japanese city throughout the Tokugawa era / by Aira Hayami, Nobuko Uchida -- 19. An interpretation of the size and structure of the household in Japan over three centuries / by Chie Nakane -- [Part 5] North America -- 20. The average size of families and households in the Province of Massachusetts in 1764 and in the United States in 1790: an overview / by Philip J. Greven -- 21. Demography and psychology in the historical study of family-life: a personal report / by John Demos -- 22. Rhode Island family structure: 1875 and 1960 / by Edward T. Pryor. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [590]-609. |
| Subject |
Genealogy.
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Family size -- History.
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| Added Author |
Wall, Richard, 1944-
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| ISBN |
0521084733 |
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