Bastardy and its comparative history : studies in the history of illegitimacy and marital nonconformism in Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, North America, Jamaica, and Japan / edited by Peter Laslett, Karla Oosterveen, and Richard M. Smith.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1980.
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Based in part on research by the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.
Bibliography
Bibliography: pages 403-416.
Note
Includes index.
Contents
Introduction: comparing illegitimacy over time and between cultures / Peter Laslett -- I. Britain -- Illegitimacy and illegitimates in English history / Alan Macfarlene -- Family reconstitution and the study of bastardy : evidence from certain English parishes / Karla Oosterveen, Richard M. Smith, Susan Stewart -- An evaluation of bastardy recordings in an East Kent parish / Anthea Newman -- The social context of illegitimacy in early modern England / David Levine and Keith Wrightson -- The nadir of English illegitimacy in the seventeenth century / Keith Wrightson -- Aspects of sexual behaviour in nineteenth-century Scotland / Christopher Smout -- The bastardy prone sub-society / Peter Laslett -- Appendix / Richard M. Smith -- II. Western Europe -- Illegitimates and foundlings in pre-industrial France / Jean Meyer -- Illegitimacy in France during the nineteenth century / Etienne van de Walle -- Illegitimate births in France from 1740 to 1829 and in the 1960s / Yves Blayo -- Urban and rural illegitimacy in Imperial Germany / John Knodel and Steven Hochstadt -- Illegitimacy in seventeenth-and eighteenth -century East Sweden / David Gaunt -- Illegitimacy and marriage in three Swedish parishes in the nineteenth century / Ann-Sofie Kälvemark -- Illegitimacy and marriage in Stockholm in the nineteenth century / Maragretta R. Matovic -- III. North American, Jamaica and Japan -- Illegitimacy and bridal pregnancy in colonial America / Robert V. Wells -- The long cycle in American illegitimacy and prenuptial pregnancy / Daniel Scott Smith -- Illegitiamcy in Jamaica / Shirley Foster Hartley -- Illegitimacy in Japan / Akira Hayami.