Philadelphia gentry
Fertility and family limitation among an American Aristocracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4744052 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Louise Kantrow (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-30 |
| Publication date | 1980-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-4728 • E-ISSN: 1477-4747 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00324728.1980.10412833 |
| OpenAlex | W4248913860 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 2 |
In this paper some findings of a family reconstitution study of a group of high-upper-class American families are reported. The study extends over almost 200 years, from the early colonial period to the Civil War. A substantive analysis of fertility patterns of a group of socially significant Philadelphia families provides interesting comparisons with the demographic experience of European social elites and raises additional questions regarding certain assumptions of classical demographic transition theory. The focus of the analysis is on fertility trends and evidence concerning the initiation of family limitation. If this group took a vanguard position by initiating the practice of family limitation in society as did other social elite groups, one might anticipate some evidence of this by the late eighteenth century
Ancient history · Aristocracy (class) · Elite · Fertility · Gentry · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Vanguard · Demography · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1985 - 2003 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |