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Title 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.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1980.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.7 B325B    Check Shelf
Description xv, 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Studies in social and demographic history
Studies in social and demographic history.
Note 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.
Subject Illegitimate children -- History.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Illegitimacy -- history.
Added Author Laslett, Peter.
Oosterveen, Karla, 1905-
Smith, Richard Michael, 1946-
Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.
ISBN 0674063384
9780674063389
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