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Four Generations : Population, Land, and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts /
A groundbreaking study in colonial history, this book gives a remarkably detailed picture of life in an early American community. It focuses on three basic and interrelated subjects largely neglected by historians-population, land, and the family-as they affected the lives of four successive generat...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Map & Graphs
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction: Problems, Sources, and Methods
- Part I: The First And Second Generations
- 2. Life and Death in a Wilderness Settlement
- 3. Land for Families: The Formative Decades
- 4. Patriarchalism and the Family
- Part II: The Second And Third Generations
- 5. The Expanding Population in a Farming Community
- 6. Control and Autonomy: Families and the Transmission of Land
- Part III: The Third And Fourth Generations
- 7. Change and Decline: Population and Families in a Provincial Town
- 8. Independence and Dependence in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Families
- Part IV: Conclusion
- 9. Historical Perspectives on the Family
- Appendix: General Demographic Data
- Bibliography
- Index