Rethinking East-Central Europe: family systems and co-residence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; Volume 1: Contexts and analyses - Volume 2: Dat (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783034346702)

This book reconstructs fundamental aspects of family organization across historical Poland-Lithuania, one of the largest political entities in early modern Europe. Using a plethora of quantitative measurements and demographic microsimulation, the author captures and elucidates the complex patterns of leaving home and life-cycle service, marriage and household formation, along with domestic group structures and living arrangements among different subpopulations of Poland-Lithuania, highlighting a variety of ways in which these patterns were nested in their respective local and regional contexts. By showing that at the end of the 18th century at least three distinct family systems existed in the Polish-Lithuanian territories, Szoltysek challenges a number of orthodoxies in the 'master narratives' on the European geography of family forms of F. Le Play, J. Hajnal, P. Laslett, and their followers. Volume two of the book contains an extensive bibliography along with a thorough archival documentation of the census-like microdata used in the book, and provides detailed information on their quality and further technicalities pertaining to data analysis.

Author: Mikolaj Szoltysek
ISBN-10: 3034346700
ISBN-13: 9783034346702
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Language: English
Published: 01/07/2016
Pages: 796
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.39lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.64d