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Family, kinship and welfare provision in Europe, past and present: commonalities and divergences
- P. Viazzo
- SociologyContinuity and Change
- 1 May 2010
ABSTRACT The realization that European family forms are failing to converge as predicted by modernization theory has led many scholars to suspect that the broad regional differences detected by…
Upland Communities: Environment, Population and Social Structure in the Alps since the Sixteenth Century
- P. Viazzo
- Economics, History
- 1 February 1990
List of illustrations List of tables List of abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction: anthropology, historical demography and the study of mountain societies 1. Environment, population and social…
The decline of infant and child mortality. The European experience: 1750-1990.
- C. Corsini, P. Viazzo
- History, Economics
- 1997
Introduction: Recent Advances and Some Open Questions in the Long-Term Study of Infant and Child Mortality C.A. Corsini, P.P. Viazzo. 1. Infant Health and Infant Mortality in Europe: Lessons from the…
What's so special about the Mediterranean? Thirty years of research on household and family in Italy
- P. Viazzo
- HistoryContinuity and Change
- 1 May 2003
This article discusses the ‘Mediterranean model’ of household formation proposed by Laslett and others in the early 1980s and argues that the notion of a Mediterranean culture area has been used in…
Sacrificed for Honor. Italian Infant Abandonment and the Politics of Reproductive Control
- P. Viazzo
- Economics
- 1994
Family structures and the early phase in the individual life-cycle: a Southern European perspective
- P. Viazzo
- History
- 1994
“Taking advantage of emptiness”?. Anthropological perspectives on mountain repopulation and spaces of cultural creativity in the Alpine area
After a century of unbroken demographic decline there are signs in many sectors of the Alpine crescent of a trend reversal which looks especially surprising in those areas (notably the French and…
Demographic Histories, Isolation and Social Factors as Determinants of the Genetic Structure of Alpine Linguistic Groups
- V. Coia, M. Capocasa, G. Destro Bisol
- BiologyPloS one
- 2 December 2013
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Child Labour in Historical Perspective 1800-1985: Case Studies from Europe, Japan and Colombia
- H. Cunningham, P. Viazzo
- Economics
- 1996
The aim of the Historical Perspectives series is to use a greater understanding of the history of childhood to shed light on the quest for improved policies and programmes for dealing with…
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