When Dad died : individuals and families coping with family stress in past societies

This volume is an important contribution to the social and cultural history of the family and documents that widowhood and orphanhood were commonplace before the twentieth century. How did the survivors cope with such tragedy? What kind of support did they receive from their community and relatives? How many widows remarried? How many children grew up as step-children or wards? And how did these circumstances influence their futures? While individual stories are frequent themes in literature, the social history of these experiences has yet to be written, especially from a comparative perspective. The 16 essays in this book provide a fresh look at the family history of widowhood and orphanhood in a dozen European and Asian countries. Family Crisis In The Context Of Different Family Systems : Frameworks And Evidence On 'when Dad Died' / Michel Oris, Emiko Ochiai -- Why Dad Dies : The Mortality Of Men In Their Working Ages In The 18th And 19th Centuries / Tommy Bengtsson -- Death And Patrimonial Descent In The Region Of Liège In The 18th Century / Paul Servais -- Strategies Of Household Continuity In A Stem-family Society : From Heirship To Headship / Antoinette Fauve-chamoux -- The Impact On The Household Of The Death Of The Father In Simple And Stem Family Societies / Richard Wall -- Systems Of Survival : Continuities And Discontinuities After The Death Of The Household Head In Pre-industrial Finland / Beatrice Moring -- The Death Of The Father In The Complex Households Of Eastern European Serf Societies : A Baltic Case Study / Andrejs Plakans, Charles Wetherell --^ The Varied Repercussions Caused By The Demise Of The Father Among Past Populations : A Comparative Analysis Between Vernon, A Region Of Normandy, And The Town Of Milan / Olivier Faron, Jacques Renard -- Parental Death And Death Of The Child : Common Causes Or Direct Effects? / Erik Beekink, Frans Van Poppel, Aart C. Liefbroer -- The Mortality Effects Of Adult Male Death On Women And Children In Agrarian Households In Early Modern Japan : Evidence From Two Northeastern Villages, 1716-1870 / Noriko O. Tsuya, Satomi Kurosu -- When Husbands And Parents Die : Widowhood And Orphanhood In Late Imperial Liaoning, 1789-1909 / Cameron Campbell, James Lee -- Effects Of The European Late Marriage Pattern On Kinship : A Study Using A Microsimulation Model / Daniel Devolder -- The Family, The Village And The Orphan In The Region Of Haut-bugey During The 19th Century / Alain Bideau, Guy Brunet --^ Parental Loss And Kin Networks : Demographic Repercussions In A Rural Italian Village / Marco Breschi, Matteo Manfredini -- When Dad Died : Household Economy And Family Culture In Nineteenth Century East Belgium / George Alter ... [et Al.] -- Fatherless Families In 19th-century Venice / Renzo Derosas. Renzo Derosas & Michel Oris (eds.). Papers Presented At A Conference Held In Venice, Italy, On May 23-24, 1998. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [453]-496).