#  Household Formation and Economic Autarky in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Transatlantic Migration as a Test Case for the European Marriage Pattern 

 



Georg Fertig

A widespread, but recently more critically debated, concept in historical demography assumes that in pre-industrial Europe neo-local marriage kept population and resources in balance. There are two variants of this model, an individualist wage model associated with England, and a corporatist positions model associated with the European continent. In this paper, I discuss the different structural conditions that have influenced such patterns in England, the German lands, and colonial North America, which was settled by emigrants from both countries, as well as comparative methods that might produce new insights into the problem.

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