ACLS Humanities E-Book: Four generations: population, land, and family in colonial Andover, Massachusetts

Four generations: population, land, and family in colonial Andover, Massachusetts

Greven, Philip J.

Year: 1970.

Publisher: Cornell University Press.

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Frontmatter

Preface

Abbreviations

1 Introduction: Problems, Sources, and Methods

PART I The First and Second Generations

2 Life and Death in a Wilderness Settlement

3 Land for Families: The Formative Decades

4 Patriarchalism and the Family

PART II The Second and Third Generations

5 The Expanding Population in a Farming Community

6 Control and Autonomy: Families and the Transmission of Land

PART III The Third and Fourth Generations

7 Change and Decline: Population and Families in a Provincial Town

8 Independence and Dependence in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Families

PART IV Conclusion

9 Historical Perspectives on the Family

Appendix: General Demographic Data

Bibliography

Index

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Title:

Four generations : population, land, and family in colonial Andover, Massachusetts Philip J. Greven, Jr.

Author:

Greven, Philip J

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Four generations : population, land, and family in colonial Andover, Massachusetts Philip J. Greven, Jr.
Greven, Philip J
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1970.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01361

Subject Headings:

• Andover (Mass.) -- Social life and customs

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