| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
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The MIT Press Eurasian population and family history series |
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MIT Press Eurasian population and family history series.
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| Contents |
Tables, Figures, and Maps; Contributors; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I: Introduction; 1 Challenging the East-West Binary; 2 Eurasian Marriage: Actorsand Structures; 3 Nuptiality: Local Populations, Sources, and Models; Part II: Comparative Demographies; 4 The Roads to Reproduction: Comparing Life-Course Trajectories in Preindustrial Eurasia; 5 The Influence of Economic Factors on First Marriage in Historical Europe and Asia; 6 Remarriage, Gender, and Rural Households; Part III: Local Histories; 7 Social Norms and Human Agency |
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8 Prudence as Obstinate Resistance to Pressure9 Between Constraints and Coercion; 10 Economic and Household Factors of First Marriage inTwo Northeastern Japanese Villages, 1716-1870; 11 Categorical Inequality and Gender Difference; Part IV: Conclusion; 12 Similarities and Differences in Pre-modern Eurasian Marriage; References; Index |
| Summary |
A study of marriage in preindustrial Europe and Asia that goes beyond the Malthusian East--West dichotomy to find variation within regions and commonality across regions |
| Analysis |
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology |
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ECONOMICS/International Economics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Marriage -- Europe -- 18th century
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Marriage -- Europe -- 19th century
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Marriage -- Asia -- 18th century
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Marriage -- Asia -- 19th century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family.
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Marriage
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Asia
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Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lundh, Christer, editor.
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Kurosu, Satomi, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780262325837 |
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0262325837 |
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