Suspicious deaths: household composition, infant neglect, and child care in nineteenth-century Venice

2012 ◽  
Vol 123 (1) ◽  
pp. 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renzo Derosas
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Household Composition ◽  
Infant Neglect

Reading The 1835 Parish Censuses from Bahia: Citizenship, Kinship, Slavery, and Household in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil

2003 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.J. Barickman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Household Composition ◽  
Qualitative Information ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
The Status ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Ideological Assumptions

Since the late 1960s, a growing number of studies have drawn on local manuscript censuses, also known as household or nominal lists, to reshape the historiography of late colonial and early nineteenth-century Brazil. While many of those studies focus on family or household composition, manuscript censuses have also been used to explore topics ranging from proto-industrialization and demographic trends to patterns of slaveholding and the status of women. In working with this documentation, scholars have generally restricted themselves to quantitative analyses; they have seldom devoted much explicit attention to the format of censuses and to the categories found in them. As a result, the ideological assumptions and political concerns that census-takers in late colonial and early nineteenthcentury Brazil brought to bear in enumerating, classifying, and ordering the population have remained largely unexplored topics. To detect those assumptions and concerns, we need to go beyond quantification and to read Brazilian manuscript censuses for the qualitative information they contain. At the very least, reading censuses qualitatively holds out the possibility of raising questions that complement and enhance the findings from the more familiar quantitative studies.

The National Sample from the 1851 Census of Great Britain: Sampling and data handling procedures

Urban History ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 55-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Anderson ◽  
Brenda Collins ◽  
Craig Stott
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Household Head ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Household Composition ◽  
Voluntary Association ◽  
Marriage Patterns ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Age Of Marriage

Over the past two decades the enumerators' books of the nineteenth-century censuses have rightly become one of the major sources for the study of nineteenth-century social structure. Containing as they do, for the whole population of Great Britain, information on name, residence, marital status, relationship to household head, sex, age, occupation, birthplace and infirmity of sight or hearing, they have made possible a wide range of studies of, for example, patterns of residence, household composition, occupational structure, migration, age of marriage, patterns of education and farm labour utilization. Linked to other sources or bodies of material they have been used in studies of class consciousness, voting, voluntary association membership, property ownership and development, farming, poverty, the employment of married women and servant keeping, to name but a few.

DIETARY PAMPERING OF ENGLISH CHILDREN IN 1754 AND THE PHYSICIAN'S MALEVOLENT ROLE IN CHILD HEALTH, ACCORDING TO THE HONORABLE MRS. SEYMOUR

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 390-390
Author(s):  
T. E. C.
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Child Health ◽  
The Other ◽  
Practical Advice ◽  
Single Fault ◽  
The Past ◽  
General Method

Mothers in the past were no less interested in books about child care than are today's mothers. Any collector of books of this genre will soon find his bookshelves completely filled with eighteenth and nineteenth century items. The most striking characteristic of these earlier predecessors of Doctors Spock and Gesell was their emphasis on the connection between daily tactics and moral strategy; practical advice was never given without constant doses of moral lessons as the excerpt below will prove: In England there is one general Method of spoiling Children; it is by foolish Indulgencies. The Observation is a very common one; but those who make it do not know half its Force: It is not only that by these Indulgencies we make them peevish and tyranical (sic); though this were enough: we lay the Foundation of Ill Health, and bad Habits; and by that single Fault of pampering them in their Diet, we entail upon them Diseases, and we rob them of that Chearfulness (sic) of Disposition which is so amiable and so agreeable; for it depends, as already said, on Health. If we look into the Generality of Families in which there are Children we shall find them eating ten Times a-day, and drinking all Day long. At their regular meals they eat what is improper. There are some few, who, to avoid this, run into the contrary Extreme, while the rest feed them immoderately, they starve them. One sees the first of these Faults universal; the other is met withal among some few Families of Quality.

Catholic Child Care in Nineteenth-Century New York. George Paul Jacoby

1942 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 356-358
Author(s):  
Florence L. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Child Care

The Evolving Icelandic Rural Household in the Shift From Pastoralism to Ranching: Hólahreppur, 1703–1974

1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Pinson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Household Composition ◽  
World War ◽  
Nuclear Families ◽  
Farm Population ◽  
Extended Families ◽  
Tenant Farmers

ABSTRACT: This article shows the changing household composition of an Icelandic rural community of isolated dispersed farms as it shifted from nineteenth century tenant farmers who raised mixed herds of sheep, dairy cattle, and horses for their own subsistence to twentieth-century freeholders who produce livestock foodstuffs for a domestic market. The farm population of the community reached its highest level under the subsistence economy with households of nuclear families and contracted live-in servants. The farmers' children replaced the live-in servants at the end of the nineteenth century as opportunities for wage labor opened up in nearby fishing settlements. Extended families became common in the community. After World War II, tenant farmers have become freeholders, the farm households are both extended families with adult children remaining on the farms and nuclear families who still retain the services of adult children who moved away as livestock owners. A range of household structures has emerged as the homogeneous Icelandic rural community has persisted.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-47
Author(s):  
Tamara S. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
New Work ◽  
Victorian Culture ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
Modern Family ◽  
Victorian Popular Culture

The Introduction surveys the divergent representations of babyhood in the nineteenth century. It situates the present study at the intersection of new work on the modern family and changing parenting realities, as well as historical childhood and child care. After a detailed discussion of the most influential or mainstream portrayals of infancy in Victorian popular culture, such as the sentimentalized baby, the baby as victim in social reform writing, and the commodified baby, the Introduction addresses the importance of unusual, yet culturally significant depictions, including comical or sensationalized babies in fiction. How did these portrayals transform cultural fantasies and genre developments? How did iconic depictions of babyhood reflect, distort, or endeavour to change the lived realities of young children in Victorian Britain? The texts selected for close reading in the subsequent chapters include material that reveals unexpected sides to Victorian infancy, as well as works that have had a catalysing function for changing representational strategies. Critical attention to the diverse and at times ambiguous depiction of infancy in Victorian culture thus also produces new readings of canonical works that have hitherto not been considered from this angle.

Remarriage, gender and social class: a longitudinal study of remarriage in southern Sweden, 1766–1894

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTER LUNDH
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Household Composition ◽  
Southern Sweden ◽  
Class A ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Rural Parishes ◽  
Negative Effect

ABSTRACTRemarriage was common in Sweden in pre-industrial times, especially among men, although over the nineteenth century the number of remarriages declined. This article analyses remarriages in southern Sweden between 1766 and 1894. Data are derived from family reconstitutions in five rural parishes in southern Sweden, which makes it possible to follow individual widows and widowers from the year of the death of the spouse. The focus here is on the influence of individual characteristics, household composition, food prices and time period on an individual widow's or widower's probability of remarriage. For some variables the effect was quite general, for example the negative effect on remarriage of the individual's age and the decrease in the likelihood of remarriage in the nineteenth century. The influence of other variables was not this straightforward. Socioeconomic status interacted with all variables, especially gender, food prices and the presence of minor or adult children in the household.

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