| Fertility, Wealth, and Politics in Three Southwest German Villages, 1650-1900 Contributor(s): Benz, Ernest (Author) |
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ISBN: 0391040936 ISBN-13: 9780391040939 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $167.20 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1999 Annotation: 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 ("Ortssippenb]cher), 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 rtles 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Demography - Architecture | Interior Design - General - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 304.634 |
| LCCN: 99022627 |
| Series: Studies in Central European Histories |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6.42" W x 9.38" (1.27 lbs) 316 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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 (Ortssippenb cher), 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 r les 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. |
