Is the Asian stem family different from its European counterpart? This question is a central issue in this collection of essays assembled by two historians of t

The volume Planning for Death: Wills and Death-Related Property Arrangements in Europe, 1200-1600 analyses death-related property transfers in several European

This book investigates marriage and divorce in the nineteenth-century European territories of the Russian Empire. It uncovers the way a peasant community employ

A study of marriage in preindustrial Europe and Asia that goes beyond the Malthusian East–West dichotomy to find variation within regions and commonality acro

This book draws on historical demography to elucidate the regional diversity of the Japanese family and its convergence toward an integrated national family mod