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Richard M. Smith
Publications - 15
Citations - 708
Richard M. Smith is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Comparative history. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 15 publications receiving 704 citations.
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Fertility economy and household formation in England over three centuries
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study using pretransitional England as a case-study assesses long term trends in family organization and associated fertility in a society in which parity-dependent fertility control was for the most part absent.
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Bastardy and its Comparative History.
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Land, Kinship and Life-Cycle
TL;DR: In this article, Campbell et al. studied the relationship between families and land in rural England in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and found that the family-land bond was broken in the mid-fifteenth century.
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The World we have gained : histories of population and social structure
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The world we have gained: histories of population and social structure. Essays presented to Peter Laslett on his seventieth birthday.
TL;DR: A collection of 15 studies by various authors concerned aspects of historical demography associated with the work of Peter Laslett is presented in this paper, where the essays range back in time as far as the fourteenth century and span topics as diverse but demonstrably interconnected as internal migration family structure and employment marriage and widowhood inheritance and remarriage.