Family Fictions and Family Facts

Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet and the Population Question in England 1798-1859

Explores the role of economic theory in normalizing the family in the first half of the nineteenth century. Drawing on sources such as novels, books on etiquette and statistical sources, and works of economics, this book examines the impacts of these different forms on debate.

février 2007, env. 308 pages, Routledge Studies in the History of Economics, Anglais
Taylor and Francis
978-0-415-15058-3

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