Fertility, Wealth, and Politics in Three Southwest German Villages, 1650-1900

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-391-04093-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Reihe: Studies in Central European Histories

The book traces the precocious diffusion of family limitation in Grafenhausen bei Lahr, Kappel am Rhein, and Rust, using thousands of reconstituted family histories in local genealogies (Ortssippenbücher), as well as economic and political data from municipal and provincial archives. Graphs, tables, and maps document the fertility transition on the densely populated Rhine plain. A new measure of the percentage of couples practising family limitation is applied. The account highlights the rôles of women as landholders under traditional partible inheritance and as workers in the cigar factories of the late 1800s. Both circumstances increased fertility, even as contraception spread along the networks of solidarity forged by economic and political independence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Benz, Ernest

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Über Autor(innen)

Ernest Benz is Associate Professor of History at Smith College in Northampton Massachusetts. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto. He previously taught at Nipissing University College in North Bay, Ontario. His work has appeared in Historical Methods and the Journal of Social History.