Four Generations: Population, Land, and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts

Title: Four Generations: Population, Land, and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts
Author: Philip Greven
ISBN: 0801491347
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1972
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 352
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Publisher Description:

A groundbreaking study in colonial history, this book gives a remarkably detailed picture of life in an early American community. It focuses on three basic and interrelated subjects largely neglected by historians--population, land, and the family--as they affected the lives of four successive generations. Applying demographic methods to historical research, Professor Greven presents new and unexpected evidence about the most basic aspects of family life in colonial America, and shows how these characteristics changed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.