Individuals, Families, and Communities in Europe, 1200-1800 - The Urban Foundations of Western Society

Informationen zum Autor Katherine Lynch is Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania. Her previous publications include Family, Class, and Ideology in Early Industrial France: Social Policy and the Working-Class Family, 1825-1848 (1988) and Sources and Methods of Historical Demography (1982). Klappentext A study of the family's function in western society from 1200 1800. Zusammenfassung In this book! Katherine Lynch discusses the place of the family in society from the late middle ages to the industrial period. She explores the family's function as an organization on the boundary between public and private life! and how this has been shaped by political! religious and demographic factors. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Fundamental features of European urban settings; 2. Church, family and bonds of spiritual kinship; 3. Charity, poor relief and the family in religious and civic communities; 4. Individuals, families and communities in urban Europe of the Protestant and Catholic reformations; 5. Constructing an 'Imagined Community': poor relief and the family during the French Revolution; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Katherine A. Lynch, Katherine A. (Carnegie Mellon University Lynch
• Con la collaborazione di: Jan de Vries (Editore), Richard Smith (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 21.08.2003
• EAN: 9780521642354
• ISBN: 978-0-521-64235-4
• Pagine: 268
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Populatio
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Libri sul benessere, vita quotidiana > Famiglia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni