Inheritance practices, marriage strategies and household formation in European rural societies /
For a long period of history, lack of access to the land has been seen as one of the most decisive factors in preventing the marriage of large parts of the rural population. This volume offers an up-to-date discussion of the interaction between inheritance practices, marriage and the household forma...
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Turnhout :
Brepols,
2012
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| Series: | Rural history in Europe ;
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Table of Contents:
- Inheritance regulations and inheritance practices, marriage and household in rural societies : comparative perspectives in a changing Europe / Anne-Lise Head-König
- The formation of new households and social change in a single heir system : the Catalan case, eighteenth century / Rosa Congost, Llorenç Ferrer Alós and Julie Marfany
- Inheritance, marital strategies, and the formation of households in rural North-Western Spain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : an overview / Ofelia Rey Castelao
- Marriage and property transfer in rural Western Bohemia 1700-1850 / Alice Velková
- Too poor to marry? 'Inheritance', the poor and marriage/household formation on rural England 1800-1840s / Steven King
- Household formation, inheritance and class-formation in nineteenth century Ireland : evidence from County Fermanagh / Jane Gray
- Marriage, household division and headship attainment in nineteenth century Central Russia, Bun'kovskaia volost', Moscow province, 1834-1869 / Herdis Kolle
- Inheritance, marriage and household formation in nineteenth century rural Serbian life courses / Siegfried Gruber
- Family strategies or individual choice? : Marriage and inheritance in a rural Swedish community, 1810-1930 / Sofia Holmlund
- Marriage, inheritance and household formation on a Greek island, Mykonos (mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century) / Violetta Hionidou
- Farm transfer, marriage, household and parental power in rural Switzerland, 1860-1960 / Anne-Lise Head-König
- The transfer of farms in North Gronigen (the Netherlands), 1591-1991 : from sale towards family succession? / Richard Paping