Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet, and the population question in Engalnd, 1798-1859 /
Brian P. Cooper.
London :
Routledge,
2007.
1 online resource ([xiv], 294 pages) :
illustrations
Routledge studies in the history of economics ;
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Classification comes home to the family -- Family and the domestication of passions -- Family, the manners of the people, and political economy -- Harriet Martineau's "embodied principles" of political economy : whose bodies, what principles? -- What is to be deemed a family? -- What is to be deemed a family? -- However you define family.
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Brian Cooper explores the role of economic theory in 'normalizing' the family in the first half of the nineteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the book examines the impacts of these different forms on contemporary debate.
Family fictions and family facts.
Martineau, Harriet,1802-1876., Illustrations of political economy.
Quetelet, Adolphe,1796-1874., Sur l'homme et le développement de ses facultés.
Illustrations of political economy (Martineau, Harriet)