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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1997.
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Colección: | Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Depopulation in post-famine Ireland
- The rural economy in the nineteenth century
- The State and the churches
- The demographic setting
- Households and the generations
- Coming of age
- The decline of marriage
- Marital fertility decline
- Conclusion.