Individuals, Families, and Communities in Europe, 1200-1800: The Urban Foundations of Western Society (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time)
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Individuals, Families, and Communities in Europe, 1200-1800: The Urban Foundations of Western Society (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time)

Individuals, Families, and Communities in Europe, 1200-1800: The Urban Foundations of Western Society (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time)

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Katherine A. Lynch (Author)  

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In this interpretation of European family and society, Katherine Lynch examines the family at the centre of the life of 'civil society'. Using a variety of evidence from European towns and cities, she explores how women and men created voluntary associations outside the family - communities, broadly defined - to complement or even substitute for solidarities based on kinship. She shows how demographic, economic, religious, and political features of European urban society encouraged the need for collective organizations for mutual protection, and how men and women acted to fulfil this need. She also emphasises the central place that family issues played in the creation of larger communities, from the 'confessional' communities of the Reformation to the national 'imagined' community of the French Revolution. Based on original research, this is an ambitious integration of the history of the family into the history of public life. 4 Tables, unspecified; 3 Maps; 10 Halftones, unspecified
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).
  • Contributor: Katherine A. Lynch
  • Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780521642354
  • Number of Pages: 268
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x16mm
  • Packaged Weight: 530
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Release Date: 2003-08-21
  • Series: Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: 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).

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