Survival: Institutions and Strategies in the Early Modern World
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5HA804
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
- Bayly, Christopher Alan, The birth of the modern world, 1780-1914: global connections and comparisons, Oxford, Blackwell, 2004
- Dennison, T.K.; Ogilvie, Sheilagh, "Serfdom and social capital in Bohemia and Russia": in Economic History Review 60, 3, 2007.
- Erickson, Amy, "Coverture and Capitalism": in History Workshop Journal 59, 2005
- The Cambridge economic history of Europe: Vol. 5, The economic organization of early modern Europe, Cambridge, U.P., 1977
- Österberg, Eva, Change and adaptation: mechanisms of a peasant economy, Part of: Mentalities and other realities: essays in medieval and early modern Scandinavian history, Lund, Lund Univ. Press, 1991
Main group 2
- Fiebranz, Rosemarie, Marital conflict over the gender division of labour in agrarian households, Sweden 1750-1850, in the Marital Economy in Scandinavia and Britain 1400-1900, eds M Ågren & A L Ericksson, 2005
- Hay, Douglas.; Craven, Paul, Masters, servants, and magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955c edited by Douglas Hay and Paul Craven., Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, c2004
- Heuvel, Danielle van den, "Partners in marriage and business?: Guilds and the family economy in urban food markets in the Dutch Republic", in Continuity and Change 23 (2), 2008
- Lottum, Jelle van, in The Dynamics of Economic Culture in the North Sea- and Baltic Region, Uitgeverij Verloren, Hilversum, 2007
- Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise van, "Couples Cooperating?: Dutch textile workers, family labour and the 'industrious revolution', 1600-1800", in Continuity and Change 23 (2) 2008
- Simonton, Deborah, A history of European women's work: 1700 to the present, New York, Routledge, 1998
- Vainio-Korhonen, Kirsi, Handicrafts as professions and sources of income in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Turku (Åbo): a gender viewpoint to economic history, in Scandinavian Economic History Review 48, 2000
Main group 3
- Chronicling poverty: the voices and strategies of the English poor, 1640-1840, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1996
- Ewan, Elizabeth, To the longer liver: Provisions for the dissolution of the marital economy in Scotland, 1470-1550, Part of: The marital economy in Scandinavia and Britain, 1400-1900, Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT, Ashgate, cop. 2005
- Freist, Dagmar, in Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Longman, 1999
- Health care and poor relief in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Northern Europe, Ashgate, 2002
Main group 4
- Bogucka, Maria, "Women and credit operations in Polish towns in early modern times (xvith-xviith centuries)", in Journal of European Economic History 32, 2003
- Marrese, Michelle Lamarche, A woman's kingdom: noblewomen and the control of property in Russia, 1700-1861, Ithaca ;a London, Cornell University Press, 2002
- Rosenhaft, Eve, Did women invent lifeinsurance?: widows and the demand for financial services in eighteenth-century Germany, Part of: Family welfare: gender, property, and inheritance since the seventeenth century, Westport, Conn., Praeger Publishers, 2004
- Spicksley, Judith, "Usury legislation, cash, and credit: the development of the female investor in the late Tudor and Stuart periods", in Economic History Review, 61:2, 2008
- Ågren, Maria, "For better for worse: Swedish marriage and property law in a comparative perspective", in Familles, saviors et reproduction dans l'Europe médiévale et modern. Actes des colloques de Rome, Parme et Nanterre, Rom, 2009
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