The Family in history : interdisciplinary essays /
edited by Theodore K. Rabb and Robert I. Rotberg.
- 235 pages ; 21 cm.
- Harper torchbooks ; TB 1757 .
- Harper torchbooks ; TB 1757. .
Fifteen essays from the Journal of interdisciplinary history; 13 of which constituted a special number of the Journal (II, 2) published in autumn 1971.
Includes bibliographical references.
Medieval marriage characteristics : a neglected factor in the history of medieval serfdom / Emily R. Coleman -- Historical demography and the reinterpretation of early modern French history : a research review / Pierre Goubert -- Age at menarche in Europe since the eighteenth century / Peter Laslett -- Illegitimacy, sexual revolution, and social change in modern Europe / Edward Shorter -- Demographic change and the life cycle of American families / Robert V. Wells -- Adolescence and youth in nineteenth-century America / Joseph F. Kett -- Patterns of work and family organization : Buffalo's Italians / Virginia Yans McLaughlin -- Developmental perspectives on the history of childhood / John Demos -- Psychological development and historical change / Kenneth Keniston -- On writing women's history / Lois W. Banner -- Recent approaches to past childhoods / Etienne van de Walle -- Documents in search of a historian : toward a history of childhood and youth in America / David J. Rothman -- The morphology of New England society in the colonial period / James A. Henretta -- The history of the family as an interdisciplinary field / Tamara K. Hareven --Bibliographic note. Toward a history of childhood and youth / C. John Sommerville.