The Vanishing Irish : Households, Migration, and the Rural Economy in Ireland, 1850-1914 /

In the years between the Great Famine of the 1840s and the First World War, Ireland experienced a drastic drop in population: the percentage of adults who never married soared from 10 percent to 25 percent, while the overall population decreased by one third. What accounted for this? For many social...

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Autor principal: Guinnane, Timothy W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Colección:Princeton Legacy Library ; 4
Temas:
Households > Ireland > History.
HISTORY / Europe / Ireland.
Adult.
Appointee.
Arthur Balfour.
Aunt.
Celibacy.
Census.
Charles Stewart Parnell.
Congested Districts Board (Scotland).
Corn Laws.
County Wicklow.
Demographic history.
Demography.
Developing country.
Dowry.
Economic power.
Economic problem.
Economics.
Economy of the Republic of Ireland.
Emigration.
English Poor Laws.
Eradication of infectious diseases.
Eugenics.
Extreme poverty.
Family income.
Famine.
Fertility.
Foray.
Gombeen man.
Grandparent.
Great Depression in the United States.
Great Famine (Ireland).
Gresham's law.
His Family.
Household.
Housing in the United Kingdom.
Human overpopulation.
Immigration to the United States.
Impediment (canon law).
Income.
Internal migration.
Irish Americans.
Irish Catholic.
Irish Poor Laws.
Laborer.
Land War.
Late Marriage.
Legitimacy (family law).
Life table.
Longevity.
Make A Difference.
Michael Davitt.
Moneylender.
Mortality displacement.
Mortality rate.
NEE.
Nationalization.
Navvy.
Nazi propaganda.
Opportunity cost.
Oppression.
Orange Order.
Outdoor relief.
Partible inheritance.
Pauperism.
Peasant.
Peat.
Penal Laws (Ireland).
Pension.
Pensioner.
Plan of Campaign.
Poor rate.
Population Matters.
Population ageing.
Population decline.
Population growth.
Population projection.
Prevalence.
Primogeniture.
Protestant Ascendancy.
Publican.
Purchasing power.
Racial hygiene.
Remarriage.
Remittance.
Rome Rule.
Rural district.
Rural housing.
Scarcity.
Sibling.
Social Darwinism.
Spinster.
Standard of living.
Subsistence crisis.
Tax.
Thomas Robert Malthus.
Ultimogeniture.
United Nations Development Programme.
Urbanization.
Western European marriage pattern.
Workhouse.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • LIST OF MAPS
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CHAPTER 1. Depopulation in Post-Famine Ireland
  • CHAPTER 2. The Rural Economy in the Nineteenth Century
  • CHAPTER 3. The State and the Churches
  • CHAPTER 4. The Demographic Setting
  • CHAPTER 5. Households and the Generations
  • CHAPTER 6. Coming of Age
  • CHAPTER 7. The Decline of Marriage
  • CHAPTER 8. Marital Fertility and Fertility Decline
  • CHAPTER 9. Conclusion
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX
  • Backmatter

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