studies in the history of illegitimacy and marital nonconformism in Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, North America, Jamaica, and Japan
Edición de la obra Bastardy and its comparative history
| Autor | Peter Laslett, Richard Michael Smith |
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| Editorial | Harvard University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 1980 |
| Lugar | Cambridge, Mass |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 431 |
| ISBN-10 | 0674063384 |
| LCCN | 79027692 |
| Serie | Studies in social and demographic history |
| Número de Cutter |
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L345b |
"This is the first historical and sociological examination of bastardy ... during a four hundred year span ... the authors find: (1) distinct temporal and regional patterns in illegitimacy, as regular as those of fertility and mortality, and they suggest that fluctuations reflect changes in the efficacy of marriage; (2) a rise in the proportion of illegitimate births interrupted by two interludes of decline; (3) little impact of urbanization and industrialization on bastardy rates in Western Europe." Cf. fly-leaf of paper cover.