Four Generations : Population, Land, and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts /
Greven, Philip
Four Generations : Population, Land, and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts / Philip Greven. - 1 online resource (352 p.)
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Map & Graphs -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Problems, Sources, and Methods -- Part I: 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 -- Part II: The Second And Third Generations -- 5. The Expanding Population in a Farming Community -- 6. Control and Autonomy: Families and the Transmission of Land -- Part III: 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 -- Part IV: Conclusion -- 9. Historical Perspectives on the Family -- Appendix: General Demographic Data -- Bibliography -- Index
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A groundbreaking study in colonial history, this book gives a remarkably detailed picture of life in an early American community. It focuses on three basic and interrelated subjects largely neglected by historians—population, land, and the family—as they affected the lives of four successive generations. Applying demographic methods to historical research, Professor Greven presents new and unexpected evidence about the most basic aspects of family life in colonial America, and shows how these characteristics changed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501725036
10.7591/9781501725036 doi
Early American & Colonial History.
Sociology & Social Science.
U.S. History.
HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).
301.42 09744 5
Four Generations : Population, Land, and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts / Philip Greven. - 1 online resource (352 p.)
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Map & Graphs -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Problems, Sources, and Methods -- Part I: 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 -- Part II: The Second And Third Generations -- 5. The Expanding Population in a Farming Community -- 6. Control and Autonomy: Families and the Transmission of Land -- Part III: 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 -- Part IV: Conclusion -- 9. Historical Perspectives on the Family -- Appendix: General Demographic Data -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
A groundbreaking study in colonial history, this book gives a remarkably detailed picture of life in an early American community. It focuses on three basic and interrelated subjects largely neglected by historians—population, land, and the family—as they affected the lives of four successive generations. Applying demographic methods to historical research, Professor Greven presents new and unexpected evidence about the most basic aspects of family life in colonial America, and shows how these characteristics changed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501725036
10.7591/9781501725036 doi
Early American & Colonial History.
Sociology & Social Science.
U.S. History.
HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).
301.42 09744 5