In addition, one essay discusses the rationale for the use of life history calendars in studying social and psychological vulnerability while another records the difficulty the authors faced when trying to set-up an online social network to collect relevant data.

La fratrie. Elle a marque l enfance de la plupart, laissant en general une memoire ambigue d affections et de tensions, de rivalites et de solidarites. Associee a des mythes millenaires comme celui d Abel et Cain, elle est une des trois relations familiales fondamentales dans la famille nucleaire, avec le lien conjugal et le lien parents-enfants. Pourtant, autant ces derniers ont suscite des recherches abondantes, autant les fratries sont negligees, traitees par la bande, etudiees et pourtant meconnues. Ce livre a pour ambition de remedier a ce manque, de contribuer au passage d une reflexion...

This book presents recent efforts and new approaches to improve our understanding of the evolution of health and mortality in urban environments in the long run, looking at transformation and adaptations during the process of rapid population growth.

This book presents recent efforts and new approaches to improve our understanding of the evolution of health and mortality in urban environments in the long run, looking at transformation and adaptations during the process of rapid population growth.

This book reconstructs fundamental aspects of family organization across historical Poland-Lithuania, one of the largest political entities in early modern Europe. Using a plethora of quantitative measurements and demographic microsimulation, the author captures and elucidates the complex patterns of leaving home and life-cycle service, marriage and household formation, along with domestic group structures and living arrangements among different subpopulations of Poland-Lithuania, highlighting a variety of ways in which these patterns were nested in their respective local and regional...