The Vanishing Irish : : Households, Migration, and the Rural Economy in Ireland, 1850-1914 / / Timothy W. Guinnane.
In the years between the Great Famine of the 1840s and the First World War, Ireland experienced a drastic drop in population: the percentage of adults who never married soared from 10 percent to 25 percent, while the overall population decreased by one third. What accounted for this? For many social...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1997 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (358 p.) :; 18 maps 10 line illus. 26 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF TABLES
- LIST OF FIGURES
- LIST OF MAPS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CHAPTER 1. Depopulation in Post-Famine Ireland
- CHAPTER 2. The Rural Economy in the Nineteenth Century
- CHAPTER 3. The State and the Churches
- CHAPTER 4. The Demographic Setting
- CHAPTER 5. Households and the Generations
- CHAPTER 6. Coming of Age
- CHAPTER 7. The Decline of Marriage
- CHAPTER 8. Marital Fertility and Fertility Decline
- CHAPTER 9. Conclusion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- Backmatter