Four generations: population, land, and family in colonial Andover, Massachusetts

Four generations: population, land, and family in colonial Andover, Massachusetts [by] Philip J. Greven, Jr.

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Autor principal: Greven, Philip J.
Format: eBook
Idioma:English
Publicat: Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1970.
Matèries:
Demography.
Father and child.
demography.
Father and child
Demography
Manners and customs
Sociale geschiedenis.
Andover (Mass.) > Social life and customs.
Massachusetts > Andover
United States, Massachusetts, Essex, Andover > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Taula de continguts:
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction : Problems, sources, and methods
  • pt. 1. 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
  • pt. 2. The second and third generations
  • 5. The expanding population in a farming community
  • 6. Control and autonomy : families and the transmission of land
  • pt. 3. 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
  • pt. 4. Conclusion
  • 9. Historical perspectives on the family
  • Appendix : General demographic data
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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