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1 online resource (329 p.) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Graphs -- Maps -- Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Grim Reckonings From European Archives -- Family Size Limitation: a Human Behavioural Universal -- European Contours Before 1900 -- Sex-ratio Studies From Baptismal Registers -- Notes -- Part I Italy -- 1 Introduction to Italian Demography After the Council of Trent -- Notes -- 2 Montefollonico: Infanticide By Married Couples in Early Modern Tuscany -- Notes |
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3 Torrita Di Siena, 1580-1770, Or the High Cost of Cheap Food -- Notes -- 4 Pavia in Lombardy 1576-1700: The Importance of Neighbourhood -- Notes -- 5 Parma 1500-1800: Girls Before Boys -- Notes -- 6 Mountain Demography During the Little Ice Age -- Notes -- 7 Three Piacentino Towns, Cortemaggiore, Fiorenzuola, Castel San Giovanni: A Terrible Synchrony -- Sex-ratio Variations -- Twins and Bastards -- Status Animarum Evidence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II Southwestern France -- 8 Introduction to Aquitaine DURING the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- Notes |
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9 Agen, Aquitaine's Complicated Second City, 1600-1715 -- Notes -- 10 Sex-Selective Infanticide in Villeneuve-Sur-Lot, 1610-1711 -- Early Modern Villeneuve-Sur-Lot -- Baptisms of Villeneuve -- The Social Elites -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11 Infanticide By Married Couples in Marmande, 1605-1711 -- A Garonne River Town -- Sources and Methods -- Absolute Numbers -- The Lower Classes -- Notable Baptisms -- Twins -- Bastards -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 12 The Massacre of the Innocents: Routine Infanticide in Mézin, 1649-1743 -- Introduction and Sources -- First Principles -- Statistical Framework |
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Mézin -- Infanticidal Behaviour -- Effect of Grain Prices On Behaviour -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 13 Layrac, 1628-1711: A Typical Confessionally Mixed Community -- Note -- 14 Nérac: A Huguenot Stronghold in Gascony -- Notes -- 15 Bergerac in Périgord, Calvinist Bastion in Aquitaine -- Catholic Sex Ratios -- Protestant Sex Ratios -- Bergerac Catholics -- Twins -- Note -- Part III England -- 16 Infanticide and Sex Ratios in England, 1550-1750 -- Notes -- 17 Leeds: A Sprawling Workshop of Western Yorkshire -- Notes -- 18 Sex Ratios in an Idyllic Country Town: Dorchester -- Notes |
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Conclusion: Endless Possibilities -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Sex ratio -- Europe -- History
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Birth control -- Europe -- History
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Infanticide -- Europe -- History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000641691 |
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1000641694 |
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