Title Family forms in historic Europe / edited by Richard Wall in collaboration with Jean Robin and Peter Laslett of the SSRC Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure

Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983

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Description x, 606 pages : illustrations, charts, maps ; 24cm Contents Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction Richard Wall; 2. Two kinds of pre-industrial household formation system J. Hajnal; 3. 'A large family: the peasant's greatest wealth': serf households in Mishino, Russia, 1814-1858 Peter Czap, Jr; 4. The peasant family as an economic unit in the Polish feudal economy of the eighteenth century Jacek Kochanowicz; 5. The familial contexts of early childhood in Baltic serf society Andrejs Plakans; 6. Estonian households in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries H. Palli; 7. Family and familia in early-medieval Bavaria Carl I. Hammer, Jr.; 8. The property and kin relationships of retired farmers in northern and central Europe David Gaunt; 9. Pre-industrial household structure in Hungary Rudolf Andorka and Tamas Farago; 10. The reconstruction of the family life course: theoretical problems and empirical results Reinhard Sieder and Michael Mitterauer; 11. The changing household: Austrian household structure from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century P. Schmidtbauer; 12. Does owning real property influence the form of the household? An example from rural West Flanders Richard Wall; 13. The evolving household: the case of Lampernisse, West Flanders Luc Danhieux; 14. The composition of households in a population of 6 men to 10 women: south-east Bruges in 1814 Richard Wall; 15. The importance of women in an urban environment: the example of the Rheims household at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux; 16. The household: demographic and economic change in England, 1650-1970 Richard Wall; 17. Family and household as work group and kin group: areas of traditional Europe compared Peter Laslett Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 565-587 Subject Families -- Europe -- History. Households -- Europe -- History. SUBJECT Europe -- Population http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114987 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 Author Laslett, Peter. Robin, Jean, 1922- Wall, Richard, 1944- Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. LC no. 82004376 ISBN 0521245478

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