Family Forms in Historic Europe

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Richard Wall
2. Two kinds of pre-industrial household formation system J. Hajnal
3. 'A large family: the peasant's greatest wealth': serf households in Mishino, Russia, 1814–1858 Peter Czap, Jr
4. The peasant family as an economic unit in the Polish feudal economy of the eighteenth century Jacek Kochanowicz
5. The familial contexts of early childhood in Baltic serf society Andrejs Plakans
6. Estonian households in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries H. Palli
7. Family and familia in early-medieval Bavaria Carl I. Hammer, Jr.
8. The property and kin relationships of retired farmers in northern and central Europe David Gaunt
9. Pre-industrial household structure in Hungary Rudolf Andorka and Tamas Farago
10. The reconstruction of the family life course: theoretical problems and empirical results Reinhard Sieder and Michael Mitterauer
11. The changing household: Austrian household structure from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century P. Schmidtbauer
12. Does owning real property influence the form of the household? An example from rural West Flanders Richard Wall
13. The evolving household: the case of Lampernisse, West Flanders Luc Danhieux
14. The composition of households in a population of 6 men to 10 women: south-east Bruges in 1814 Richard Wall
15. The importance of women in an urban environment: the example of the Rheims household at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
16. The household: demographic and economic change in England, 1650–1970 Richard Wall
17. Family and household as work group and kin group: areas of traditional Europe compared Peter Laslett.

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