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dc.contributor.authorKent, Daviden
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-24T14:23:00Z-
dc.date.issued1990-
dc.identifier.citationLocal Population Studies (45), p. 27-42en
dc.identifier.issn0143-2974en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21541-
dc.description.abstractOver the past fifteen or so years social historians and demographers have subjected the institution of marriage and the patterns of family life in pre-industrial England to close and detailed scrutiny. In the wealth of interpretive studies and minute dissections which characterise the literature there is, however, one notable lacuna. Virtually no systematic study has been made of marital failure, family breakdown and desertion. Snell, in his outstanding book on the living and working experiences of the labouring poor in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, drew attention to the problem of the deserted family. Yet the discussion of abandoned families was little more than a brief textual footnote to Snell's main purpose; his sample was relatively small and the period of review very long. Even so, he offered some stimulating insights into the characteristics of marital breakdown in the countryside but had to admit that 'it is not possible to show whether an urban environment was more conducive to break-up than a rural one'. The purpose of this paper is to add an urban dimension to the line of enquiry initiated by Snell.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherUniversity of Hertfordshireen
dc.relation.ispartofLocal Population Studiesen
dc.title'Gone for a Soldier': Family Breakdown and the Demography of Desertion in a London Parish, 1750-91en
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.subject.keywordsBritish Historyen
local.contributor.firstnameDaviden
local.subject.for2008210305 British Historyen
local.subject.seo2008970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeologyen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emaildkent@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryC1en
local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20170706-095626en
local.publisher.placeUnited Kingdomen
local.format.startpage27en
local.format.endpage42en
local.peerreviewedYesen
local.identifier.issue45en
local.title.subtitleFamily Breakdown and the Demography of Desertion in a London Parish, 1750-91en
local.contributor.lastnameKenten
dc.identifier.staffune-id:dkenten
local.profile.roleauthoren
local.identifier.unepublicationidune:21732en
local.identifier.handlehttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21541en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitle'Gone for a Soldier'en
local.output.categorydescriptionC1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journalen
local.relation.urlhttp://www.localpopulationstudies.org.uk/PDF/LPS45/LPS45_1990_27-42.pdfen
local.search.authorKent, Daviden
local.uneassociationUnknownen
local.year.published1990en
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