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Klappentext Considers endogamy! the custom forbidding marriage outside one's social class! which is central to social history. Zusammenfassung Endogamy! the custom forbidding marriage outside one's social class! is central to social history. This study considers the factors determining who married whom! whether partner selection changed over the past three hundred years and regional differences between Europe and South America. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Endogamy and social class in history: an overview Marco H. D. van Leeuwen and Ineke Maas; 2. Marriage choices in a plantation society: Bahia, Brazil Katherine Holt; 3. Deciding whom to marry in a rural two-class society: social homogamy and constraints in the marriage market in Rendalen, Norway, 1750?00 Hans Henrik Bull; 4. 'We have no proletariat': social stratification and occupational homogamy in industrial Switzerland, Winterthur 1909/10? Reto Schumacher and Luigi Lorenzetti; 5. Pyrenean marriage strategies in the nineteenth century: the French Basque case Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga; 6. Homogamy in a society orientated towards stability: a micro-study of a South Tyrolean market town, 1700?00 Margareth Lanzinger; 7. Finding the right partner: rural homogamy in nineteenth-century Sweden Martin Dribe and Christer Lundh; 8. Migration, occupational identity, and societal openness in nineteenth-century Belgium Bart Van de Putte, Michel Oris, Muriel Neven and Koen Matthijs; 9. Migration and endogamy according to social class: France, 1803?86 Jean-Pierre P?issier, Daniel? R?audo, Marco H. D. van Leeuwen and Ineke Maas; 10. 'They live in indifference together': marriage mobility in Zeeland, The Netherlands, 1796?22 Hilde Bras and Jan Kok; 11. Total and relative endogamy by social origin: a first international comparison of changes in marriage choices during the nineteenth century Ineke Maas and Marco H. D. van Leeuwen.
