Land, kinship, and life-cycle by Smith, Richard Michael - 1984

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. First edition (stated). Hardcover. Extremely mild wear to spine head and foot, light soiling to boards and spine, exceedingly gentle rubbing to corners, faint soiling to fore-edges, extremely gentle rubbing to DJ spine head and foot, sunned DJ spine, exceedingly mild rubbing to DJ corners, eight very small holes to DJ spine, else Near Fine(-) in Very Good(+) DJ./very good +. Octavo in green DJ, b&w illus to front DJ, xiii, 547 pages, b&w illustrations, 24 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || Series: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time, 1. Contents: Some issues concerning families and their property in rural England 1250-1800/ RICHARD M. SMITH -- Population pressure, inheritance and the land market in a fourteenth-century peasant community/ BRUCE M.S. CAMPBELL -- Families and their land in an area of partible inheritance: Redgrave, Suffolk 1260-1320/ RICHARD M. SMITH -- Population changes and the transfer of customary land on a Cambridgeshire manor in the fourteenth century/ JACK RAVENSDALE -- Industrial employment and the rural land market 1380-1520/ IAN BLANCHARD -- Changes in the size of peasant holdings in some west midland villages 1400-1540 / CHRISTOPHER DYER -- The erosion of the family-land bond in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: a methodological note/ ZVI RAZI -- Changes in the link between families and land in the west midlands in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries/ CHRISTOPHER DYER -- Kinship in an English village: Terling, Essex 1550-1700/ KEITH WRIGHTSON -- The myth of the peasantry: family and economy in a northern parish/ ALAN MACFARLANE -- Poverty, poor relief and the life-cycle: some evidence from seventeenth-century Norfolk/ TIM WALES -- The receipt of poor relief and family situation: Aldenham, Hertfordshire 1630-90/ W. NEWMAN BROWN -- Widows in pre-industrial society: an essay upon their economic functions/ B.A. HOLDERNESS -- Real property, marriage and children: the evidence from four pre-industrial communities/ RICHARD WALL -- The nineteenth-century peasantry of Melbourn, Cambridgeshire/ DENNIS R. MILLS. Inheritance and succession -- England -- History.