Using historical census microdata and quantitative methods this book captures patterns of leaving home and life-cycle service, marriage and household formation, as well as domestic group structures and living arrangements among different subpopulations of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 18th century.

Cette collection a pour ambition d'accueillir et de promouvoir le dialogue entre les This series welcomes and encourages the dialogue between demography and family studies to démographes et les spécialistes de la famille, dialogue qui renouvelle profondément tant revitalize social history as well as sociology and population studies. l'histoire sociale que la sociologie contemporaine. Elle privilégie les perspectives comparatives, internationales, ainsi que les approches The collection emphasizes comparative and international perspectives, as well as interdisciplinaires, celles qui mêlent les apports de l'histoire, de l'économie, de la statistique, interdisciplinary approaches drawing from history, economics, statistics, sociology, de la sociologie, de la géographie, de la démographie, de l'anthropologie culturelle. geography, demography, and cultural anthropology.