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.

0061317578 9780061317576

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Families--History
Child rearing--History.

HQ503 / .F32 1973

306.8509