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Family fictions and family facts : Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet, and the population question in England, 1798-1859
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- Creator
- Brian P. Cooper
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 2007
- Physical Details
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- 294 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0415150582, 9780415150583, 0203441850, 9780203441855
- OCLC
- ocm70199860
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-286) and index.
- Classification comes home to the family -- Family and the domestication of passions -- Family, the manners of the people, and political economy -- Harriet Martineau's "embodied principles" of political economy : whose bodies, what principles? -- What is to be deemed a family? -- What is to be deemed a family? -- However you define family
Subjects
- Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876. Illustrations of political economy.
- Quetelet, Adolphe, 1796-1874. Sur l'homme et le développement de ses facultés.
- Families -- Economic aspects -- England -- History -- 19th century.
- Demography -- England -- Classification -- History -- 19th century.
- Families in literature.
- Population in literature.
- Malthusianism.