Marriage and love in England: Modes of reproduction, 1300-1840 - Hardcover

Macfarlane, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631139923 ISBN 13: 9780631139928

Publisher: B. Blackwell, 1986

Synopsis

Book by Macfarlane, Alan

About this title

About the Author:

Alan Macfarlane is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of King's College.

From Library Journal:

The latest book by a well-known English social historian contributes importantly to the raging scholarly debate over the nature and historic role of traditional marriage practices in England. Macfarlane sees what he calls ``the Malthusian marriage system'' (fluctuating age at marriage, free choice of partner for love, independent nuclear household, and goal of individual satisfaction) as the homeostatic mechanism linking English fertility rates to economic conditions. In opposition to Marx and to much recent scholarship, he finds this a constant in English society from at least the 14th century. Hence, traditional marriage practices cannot be an effect of capitalist economic development and, he posits, may be a cause or a correlate of them. This potentially controversial work belongs in major libraries, college or public. Richard C. Hoffmann, History Dept., York Univ., Downsview, Ontario
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About this edition

• Publisher: B. Blackwell
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0631139923
• ISBN 13: 9780631139928
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 380