1. Introduction: The history of the family Peter Laslett; 2. Some
demographic determinants of average household size: An analytic approach
Thomas K. Burch; 3. The evolution of the family Jack Goody; 4. Mean
household size in England since the sixteenth century Peter Laslett; 5.
Mean household size in England from printed sources Richard Wall; 6. A note
on the household structure of mid-nineteenth-century York in comparative
perspective W. A. Armstrong; 7. Household structure and the industrial
revolution; mid-nineteenth-century Preston in comparative perspective
Michael Anderson; 8. A southern French village: the inhabitants of
Montplaisant in 1644 Jean-Noel Biraben; 9. Size and structure of households
in a northern French village between 1836 and 1861 Yves Blayo; 10.
Household and family in Tuscany in 1427 Christiana Klapisch; 11. Structure
of household and family in Corsica, 1769-71 Jacques Dupaquier and Louis
Jadin; 12. Variations in the size and structure of the household in the
United Provinces of the Netherlands in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries A. M. van der Woude; 13. Size of households before the industrial
revolution: the case of Liege in 1801 Etienne Helin; 14. The zadruga as
process E. A. Hammel; 15. Houseful and household in an eighteenth-century
Balkan city. A tabular analysis of the listing of the Serbian sector of
Belgrade in 1733-4 Peter Laslett and Marilyn Clarke; 16. Town and
countryside in Serbia in the nineteenth century, social and household
structure as reflected in the census of 1863 Joel M. Halpern; 17. Small
families, small households, and residential instability: town and city in
'pre-modern' Japan Robert J. Smith; 18. Size of household in a Japanese
county throughout the Tokugawa era Akira Hayami and Nobuko Uchida; 19. An
interpretation of the size and structure of the household in Japan over
three centuries Chic Nakane; 20. The average size of families and
households in the Province of Massachusetts in 1764 and in the United
States in 1790: an overview Philip J. Graven, Jr; 21. Demography and
psychology in the historical study of family-life: a personal report John
Demos; 22. Rhode Island family structure: 1875 and 1960 Edward T. Pryor,
Jr.
