Marriage and Fertility : : Studies in Interdisciplinary History /

Marriage and Fertility : : Studies in Interdisciplinary History / / ed. by Theodore K. Rabb, Robert I. Rotberg.

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In this volume the articles are primarily on European history, but their subject matter indicates the remarkable variety, both of the marriage and fertility patterns of past societies, and of the methods scholars have used to investigate them.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Chojnacki, Stanley,
Cohen, Miriam,
Coleman, Emily R.,
Fairchilds, Cissie,
Flandrin, Jean-Louis,
Grigg, Susan,
Hanawalt, Barbara A.,
Hindus, Michael S.,
Laslett, Peter,
Lee, W. R.,
Longer, William L.,
Schnucker, Robert V.,
Scott, Joan W.,
Shorter, Edward,
Smith, Daniel Scott,
Sussman, George D.,
Tilly, Louise A.,
HerausgeberIn:
Rabb, Theodore K.,
Rotberg, Robert I.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1981
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Studies in Interdisciplinary History ; 96
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Physical Description:1 online resource (386 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Medieval Marriage Characteristics: A Neglected Factor in the History of Medieval Serfdom
  • Childrearing Among the Lower Classes of Late Medieval England
  • Dowries and Kinsmen in Early Renaissance Venice
  • Elizabethan Birth Control and Puritan Attitudes
  • Illegitimacy, Sexual Revolution, and Social Change in Modern Europe
  • Bastardy and the Socioeconomic Structure of South Germany
  • Bastardy in South Germany: A Comment
  • Bastardy in South Germany: A Reply
  • Female Sexual Attitudes and the Rise of Illegitimacy: A Case Study
  • A Case of Naivete in the Use of Statistics
  • A Reply
  • Women's Work and European Fertility Patterns
  • Parisian Infants and Norman Wet Nurses in the Early Nineteenth Century: A Statistical Study
  • The Origins of the Birth Control Movement in England in the Early Nineteenth Century
  • Age at Menarche in Europe since the Eighteenth Century
  • Toward a Theory of Remarriage: A Case Study of Newburyport at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
  • Premarital Pregnancy in America 1640-1971: An Overview and Interpretation
  • The Contributors

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