Katherine A. Lynch

Individuals, Families, and Communities in Europe, 1200-1800

The Urban Foundations of Western Society

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of the family's function in western society from 1200 1800.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780521645416
• ISBN-10: 0521645417
• Artikelnr.: 22053261

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.