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The Decline of Remarriage: Evidence From German Village Populations in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
(Sage Publications, 1985)
Family reconstitution data for fourteen German village populations permit the examination of remarriage during the eighteenth and nineteenth cen turies. The results provide compelling evidence for a secular decline in the ...
Property, Progeny, and Emotion: Family History in a Leonese Village
(Sage Publications, 1988)
This article considers, from the historical, demographic, and anthropological points of view the various forms that the Leonese peasant family takes during its development cycle, and demonstrates the importance of extended ...
Anarchism, Revolution and Reaction: Catalan Labour and the Crisis of the Spanish State, 1898–1923 By Angel Smith
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008-04)
Romanticising the poor harms the poor
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009-01)
A libertarian movement that emphasises free markets to reduce poverty has grown strong in recent years. It views the poor as ‘resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value-conscious consumers’. This romanticised view of ...
Declining inequality in schooling in Brazil and its effects on inequality in earnings
(Elsevier, 1991-11)
Household survey data demonstrate that Brazilian males born between 1925 and 1963 experienced steady increases in mean schooling and significant declines in schooling inequality. The variance in years of schooling increased ...