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<!page v, table of contents!> Contents Acknowledgments Part One Introduction and Approaches 1. Introduction and Overview 2. Models, Data, and Methods Part Two Influence on Family Scholars 3. Views of Changes in Family Life from Reading History Sideways 4. The Fertility Decline in Northwest Europe 5. Changes in Family Life in the Northwest European Historical Record 6. The Scholarly Legacy 7. The Legacy of Data Part Three Influence on Individual and Community Actors 8. Developmental Idealism 9. Freedom, Equality, and Consent in Northwest European Family Relationships 10. Fighting Barbarism in the United States 11. Governmental Pathways of Influence outside Northwest Europe 12. Social and Economic Pathways of Influence outside Northwest Europe 13. The Power of Developmental Thinking Postscript: Dealing with the Language of the Developmental Paradigm References Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Family -- Historiography.
Family -- Europe, Western -- Historiography.
Family -- Europe, Northern -- Historiography.
Family -- History.
Family -- Europe, Western -- History.
Family -- Europe, Northern -- History.
Social evolution.