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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Lundh, Christer. Similarity in difference (DLC) 2014008012 (OCoLC)878501816 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Christer Lundh; Satomi Kurosu; et al |
ISBN: | 9780262325837 0262325837 |
OCLC Number: | 897906591 |
Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
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. 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. |
Series Title: | MIT Press Eurasian population and family history series. |
Responsibility: | [edited by] Christer Lundh and Satomi Kurosu, et al. |
Abstract:
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.
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