Multigenerational families in nineteenth-century America

Continuity and Change

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 139-165

  Ruggles, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAMILY STRUCTURE; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SOCIAL HISTORY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0141837096     PISSN: 02684160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0268416003004466     Document Type: Article

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