Interest in the history of ownership rights is growing and spreading to different disciplines. Historians are turning their attention mainly to the rise of private and individual ownership as it was codified in 19th-century liberal Europe. In writing this history, however, their perspective has too often ignored the other side of the coin, namely the restrictions which the sovereign imposed on such rights, allegedly in the interest of the community. The papers collected in the present volume suggest that private property is not necessarily the most safeguarded legal model, hence it is not...
Interest in the history of ownership rights is growing and spreading to different disciplines. Historians are turning their attention mainly to the ri...
Cet ouvrage reunit une serie de contributions qui portent sur les familles de la France, de la Suisse et du Canada francais. Il souhaite renouveler un courant historiographique important, consacre a la reproduction des societes rurales par l analyse des interactions existant entre pratiques migratoires et marches. Par des approches recourant aussi bien aux sources de l histoire sociale et economique qu a celles de la demographie historique, les auteurs approfondissent les formes de gestion de la migration dans les societes du passe par rapport aux modes d insertion dans les marches. Les...
Cet ouvrage reunit une serie de contributions qui portent sur les familles de la France, de la Suisse et du Canada francais. Il souhaite renouveler un...
Over the past few years, the cross-disciplinary field of research devoted to family and kinship history in Europe has seen the emergence of an important stream of studies developing wide-ranging comparative perspectives on great spaces and long periods. Their hypotheses and interpretative models differ somewhat with regard of the factors taken into account, and of the underlying logic identified for these processes. The first part of this volume presents a broad discussion of these recent developments. The chapters in the second part have an alpine focus and are dealing more or less...
Over the past few years, the cross-disciplinary field of research devoted to family and kinship history in Europe has seen the emergence of an impo...
