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Inheritance Systems, Family Structure, and Demographic Patterns in Western Europe, 1700–1900
Ist Teil von
Historical Studies of Changing Fertility, 2015, p.209-224
Ort / Verlag
Princeton: Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
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Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The availability of land and the rules of inheritance that govern succession to it have been invoked time and again as primary factors in determining both the family structure and the demographic patterns of Western European peasant societies. It has been pointed out repeatedly that impartible inheritance and the integral transmission of the land prevents the creation of new households by maintaining a fixed number of openings on the land and therefore limits the number of marriages, encourages the emigration of children, and leads to slow population growth. Partible inheritance, on the other hand, results in fragmentation of the land