Marriage choices and class boundaries: social endogamy in history
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521685467
Date de publication :
9 mars 2006
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,1 x 1,5 cm
Poids :
488 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Endogamy, the custom forbidding marriage outside one's social class, is central to social history. This study considers the factors determining who married whom, whether partner selection changed over the past three hundred years and regional differences between Europe and South America.