1st Edition
Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern Demographic Developments in Ottoman Bulgaria
By Maria Todorova
Copyright 2006
264 Pages
by
Central European University Press
This study, which is an updated, extended, and revised version of the out-of-print 1993 edition, reassesses the traditional stereotype of the place of the Balkans in the model of the European family in the nineteenth century on the basis of new source material and by synthesizing existing research. The work first analyzes family structure and demographic variables as they appear in population... Read more
Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Rethinking the Unknown; II. Population Structure; Age Structure; Sex Structure; III. Marriage and Nuptiality; The Marriage Ritual and Seasonal Patterns of Marriage; Age at Marriage; Remarriage, Cross-Kin Marriages and Other Characteristics; IV. Birth and Fertility; Births, Baptisms and Their Registration; Measurements of Fertility; Twins in a Closed Population; V. Death and Mortality; Gender and Age Specific Mortality; Seasonal Patterns of Mortality and Causes of Death; VI. Family and Household Size and Structure; Family and Household Structure; Family and Household Size; Inheritance Patterns; VII. The Problem of the South Slav Zadruga; Distribution and Development of the zadruga in the Balkans; An Alternative Explanation; VIII. Conclusion: A Hypothesis of Converging Theories; A Summary of Conclusions; Appendices; Notes; References and Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Maria N. Todorova is a Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
