Research Catalog

Title

Family history revisited : comparative perspectives / edited by Richard Wall, Tamara K. Hareven, and Josef Ehmer ; with the assistance of Markus Cerman.

Publication

Newark, [Del.] : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c2001.

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Additional Authors

• Wall, Richard, 1944-
• Hareven, Tamara K.
• Ehmer, Josef, 1948-

Description

403 p. :b ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The family in interdisciplinary perspective

Uniform Title

• Historische Familienforschung. English.
• University of Delaware Press series, The family in interdisciplinary perspective.

Subject

Families > History

Note

• "An earlier version of these essays first appeared in German under the title Historische Familienforschung: Erge-bnisse und Kontroversen"--Acknowledgments.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-384) and index.

Contents

The impact of family history and the life course on social history / Tamara K. Hareven -- Contemporary European familial behavior and historical precedent / Peter Laslett -- "Monday's child is fair of face" / Roger Schofield -- The rights of foreigners and access to citizenship in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Rome / Angiolina Arru -- Gender relations, marriage, and illegitimacy in the Habsburg monarchy: Venice, lower Austria, and the Bohemia in the early nineteenth century / Edith Saurer -- Aesthetics of marriage alliance: class codes and endogamous marriage in the nineteenth-century propertied classes / David Sabean -- Traces of emotion? Marital discord in early modern Bavaria / Rainer Beck -- Unmarried fathers in the Austrian legal code and popular autobiography in the early twentieth century / Christa Hämmerle -- The ties that bind and breaking free: a case study of the current dynamics of marriage and family life / Reinhard Sieder -- The transformation of the European family across the centuries / Richard Wall -- On the epistemological value of family models: the Balkans within the European pattern /Maria Todorova -- The search for place: east European family history 1800-2000 / Andrejs Plakans and Charles Wetherell -- Central Europe and the "European marriage pattern": marriage patterns and family structure in central Europe, 16th-19th centuries / Markus Cerman -- A comparative perspective on rural families in Japan from the early modern period until the middle of the nineteenth century / Yuji Wakao -- Two forms of stem family system in one country? The evidence from Japan's first national census in 1920 / Osamu Saito.

Call Number

HQ515

ISBN

0874136873 (alk. paper)

LCCN

00055219

OCLC

44632928

Title

Family history revisited : comparative perspectives / edited by Richard Wall, Tamara K. Hareven, and Josef Ehmer ; with the assistance of Markus Cerman.

Imprint

Newark, [Del.] : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c2001.

Series

The family in interdisciplinary perspective

University of Delaware Press series, The family in interdisciplinary perspective.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-384) and index.

Added Author

Wall, Richard, 1944-

Hareven, Tamara K.

Ehmer, Josef, 1948-

Research Call Number

*R-USLHG HQ515 .H5713 2001