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

Other author Wall, Richard, 1944-
Other author Hareven, Tamara K.
Other author Ehmer, Josef, 1948-2023
Format Book
Publication InfoNewark, [Del.] : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©2001.
Description403 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Families--History.

Uniform titleHistorische Familienforschung. English.
SeriesThe family in interdisciplinary perspective
University of Delaware Press series, The family in interdisciplinary perspective. ^A467269
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 351-384) and index.
LCCN 00055219
ISBN0874136873 (alk. paper)