Description: Conventional wisdom holds that, over a long period of history, many women and men in the countryside were prevented from marrying because they lacked access to land. This volume offers an up-to-date discussion of the interaction between inheritance practices, marriage and household formation both for those who inherited and those who
Brief description: Anne-Lise Head-Konig is professor em. of social and economic history at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). Her main fields of research relate to the transformations in rural societies in Switzerland and in Europe with their social and demographic implications, including social mobility, migration and gender. Peter Pozsgai is associate professor of social and economic history at the Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary). His research interests in rural studies cover demography, agrarian social relations, property transfer and the land market in Hungary and in Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.