English rural societies and geographical marital endogamy, 1700-1837

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3137783
AutoresK D M Snell (autor de correspondencia)
Año2002
Volumen55
Número2
Páginas262-298
Fecha de publicación2002-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Economic History Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0013-0117 • E-ISSN: 1468-0289
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-0289.00221
PMID18030703
OpenAlexW2053796770
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10

This article studies 69 rural parishes in eight English counties, examining changes in geographical marital endogamy. It discovers a consistent upward trend in the proportions of marriages that were parochially endogamous, coupled with a decline in so -called 'foreign' marriages following Hardwickes's Act (1753), and a striking shift towards marriages taking place in the brides' parishes. It explores regional variability in parochial endogamy and stresses the role of settlement sizes. The explanation for rising endogamy highlights factors such as population growth, rising poor relief expenditures, and attitudes resistant to 'outsiders' during a period of precarious subsistence and associated tensions

Agriculture · Archaeology · Demographic economics · Economics · Endogamy · Exogamy · Genealogy · Geography · Population · Rural population · Settlement (finance) · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Subsistence agriculture · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History