The Making of the Modern Greek Family: Marriage and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Athens

The Making of the Modern Greek Family: Marriage and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Athens This 1991 study deals with a specific set of institutions in nineteenth-century Athens. Relying on matrimonial contracts, travellers accounts, memoirs and popular literature, the author shows how the distinctive forms of marriage, kinship and property transmission evolved in Athens in the nineteenth century, became a feature of Greek society, and continued into the twentieth century. Autor: Paul Sant (University of Cambridge) Cassia Wydawnictwo: Cambridge University Press Rok wydania: 1991 Okładka: twarda Liczba stron: 300 Wymiary: 23.7 x 15.8 x 2.8 cm Ilustracje: 28 Tables, unspecified; 10 Halftones, unspecified; 3 Line drawings, unspecified Język: angielski ISBN: 9780521400817