comparative studies in the size and structure of the domestic group over the last three centuries in England, France, Serbia, Japan and colonial North America, with further materials from Western Europe.
Edited, with an analytic introduction on the history of the family, by Peter Laslett with the assistance of Richard Wall.
Cambridge [England]
University Press,
1972.
xii, 623 pages
illustrations, maps
24 cm.
A publication of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Includes bibliographical references (pages 590-609) and index.
1. Introduction: the history of the family / by Peter Laslett -- 2. Some demographic determinants of average household size: an analytic approach / by Thomas K. Burch -- 3. The evolution of the family / by Jack Goody -- [Part 1] England -- 4. Mean household size in England since the sixteenth century / by Peter Laslett -- 5. Mean household size in England from printed sources / by Richard Wall -- 6. A note on the household structure of mid-nineteenth-century York in comparative perspective / by W.A. Armstrong -- 7. Household structure and the industrial revolution: mid-nineteenth-century Preston in comparative perspective / by Michael Anderson -- [Part 2] Western Europe -- 8. A southern French village: the inhabitants of Montplaisant in 1644 / by Jean Noël Biraben -- 9. Size and structure of households in a northern French village between 1836 and 1861 / by Yves Blayo -- 10. Household and family in Tuscany in 1427 / by Christiane Klapisch -- 11. Structure of household and family in Corsica, 1769-71 / by Jacques Dupâquier, Louis Jadin -- 12. Variations in the size and structure of the household in the United Provinces of the Netherlands in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / by A.M. van der Woude -- 13. Size of households before the industrial revolution: the case of Liège in 1801 / by Étienne Hélin -- [Part 3] Serbia -- 14. The zadruga as process / by E.A. Hammel -- 15. Houseful and household in an eighteenth-century Balkan city: a tabular analysis of the listing of the Serbian sector of Belgrade in 1733-4 / by Peter Laslett, Marilyn Clarke -- 16. Town and countryside in Serbia in the nineteenth-century, social and household structure as reflected in the census of 1863 / by Joel M. Halpern -- [Part 4] Japan -- 17. Small families, small households, and residential instability: town and city in "pre-modern" Japan / by Robert J. Smith -- 18. Size of household in Japanese city throughout the Tokugawa era / by Aira Hayami, Nobuko Uchida -- 19. An interpretation of the size and structure of the household in Japan over three centuries / by Chie Nakane -- [Part 5] North America -- 20. The average size of families and households in the Province of Massachusetts in 1764 and in the United States in 1790: an overview / by Philip J. Greven -- 21. Demography and psychology in the historical study of family-life: a personal report / by John Demos -- 22. Rhode Island family structure: 1875 and 1960 / by Edward T. Pryor.
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Comparative studies in the size and structure of the domestic group over the last three centuries in England, France, Serbia, Japan and colonial North America, with further materials from Western Europe.