Peter A Gunn
Biographic Data
| ID | 4101834 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter A Gunn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter A |
| FAMILY NAME | Gunn |
| SIGNATURE | GUNN P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The impact of prohibited periods on the seasonality of marriage: Denominational differences and cultural continuities among English settlers in nineteenth century Tasmania
The prohibitions on marriage associated with the liturgical seasons of Advent, Lent, and Rogation have been among the many influences on the timing of marriage in English populations up to the eighteenth century. The degree to which the liturgical seasons continued to have an impact in England into the nineteenth century remains unclear. Using all 51,139 marriages recorded in the Tasmanian Civil Registers between 1838 and 1899, this paper address…
Convict Bastards, Common-Law Unions, and Shotgun Weddings: Premarital Conceptions and Ex-Nuptial Births in Nineteenth-Century Tasmania
This article uses reconstituted family data from birth, death, and marriage registers to measure ex-nuptial fertility and premarital pregnancies in nineteenth-century Tasmania. It also examines the extent to which convict origins of European society on the island caused a departure from English norms of family formation behavior, during a period when men greatly outnumbered women. Illegitimacy was high during the convict period. From the mid-1850…
Productive Cycles and the Season of Marriage: A Critical Test
Productive Cycles and the Season of Marriage: A Critical Test Seasonal patterns of marriage have been of long-standing interest, but the materials for constructing a decisive account of the observed variations have not been readily available. This article examines the widely held view that a relationship exists between productive cycles and the season of marriage. Its subjects are the early English settlers in Van Diemen's Land, who had to come t…
Legislating Filial Piety: The Australian Experience
The division of responsibility for aged people in modern society, between the State and their adult children, has received little systematic attention although the matter remains a perennial item of public debate. This paper reports the Australian experience of debate and legislation in this field. It is argued that the State assumed responsibility for the support of the elderly when, under pressure from prevailing demographic and economic change…
Productive Cycles and the Season of Marriage: A Critical Test
Productive Cycles and the Season of Marriage: A Critical Test Seasonal patterns of marriage have been of long-standing interest, but the materials for constructing a decisive account of the observed variations have not been readily available. This article examines the widely held view that a relationship exists between productive cycles and the season of marriage. Its subjects are the early English settlers in Van Diemen's Land, who had to come t…
Legislating Filial Piety: The Australian Experience
The division of responsibility for aged people in modern society, between the State and their adult children, has received little systematic attention although the matter remains a perennial item of public debate. This paper reports the Australian experience of debate and legislation in this field. It is argued that the State assumed responsibility for the support of the elderly when, under pressure from prevailing demographic and economic change…
Productive Cycles and the Season of Marriage: A Critical Test
Productive Cycles and the Season of Marriage: A Critical Test Seasonal patterns of marriage have been of long-standing interest, but the materials for constructing a decisive account of the observed variations have not been readily available. This article examines the widely held view that a relationship exists between productive cycles and the season of marriage. Its subjects are the early English settlers in Van Diemen's Land, who had to come t…
Convict Bastards, Common-Law Unions, and Shotgun Weddings: Premarital Conceptions and Ex-Nuptial Births in Nineteenth-Century Tasmania
This article uses reconstituted family data from birth, death, and marriage registers to measure ex-nuptial fertility and premarital pregnancies in nineteenth-century Tasmania. It also examines the extent to which convict origins of European society on the island caused a departure from English norms of family formation behavior, during a period when men greatly outnumbered women. Illegitimacy was high during the convict period. From the mid-1850…
The impact of prohibited periods on the seasonality of marriage: Denominational differences and cultural continuities among English settlers in nineteenth century Tasmania
The prohibitions on marriage associated with the liturgical seasons of Advent, Lent, and Rogation have been among the many influences on the timing of marriage in English populations up to the eighteenth century. The degree to which the liturgical seasons continued to have an impact in England into the nineteenth century remains unclear. Using all 51,139 marriages recorded in the Tasmanian Civil Registers between 1838 and 1899, this paper address…
Australian History and Society (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Art (1 works) · Australian Indigenous Culture and History (1 works) · Biology (1 works) · Convict (1 works) · Criminology (1 works)