Private domain, public inquiry

Contents: ANTON SCHUURMAN/PIETER SPIERENBURG, Introduction: Between Public and Private   I. The Family: HANS DE WAARDT, Feud and Atonement in Holland and Zeeland. From Private Vengeance to Reconciliation under State Supervision   MANON VAN DER HEIJDEN, Secular and Ecclesiastical Marriage Control: Rotterdam, 1550-1700   RUDOLF DEKKER, Children On Their Own. Changing Relations in the Family. the Experiences of Dutch Autobiographers, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries   MAARTEN DUIJVENDAK, Elite Families Between Private and Public Life. Some Trends and Theses   II. The Household and Consumption: KITTY DE LEEUW, Fashion, Clothing and Personality: Implacable Enemies or Inseparable Partners? Origin and Development of the 'Personality Cult' in Clothing in the Netherlands: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries   THERA WIJSENBEEK-OLTHUIS, Noblesse Oblige. Material Culture of the Nobility in Holland   HESTER C. DIBBITS, Between Society and Family Values. The Linen Cupboard in Early Modern Households   MARJAN GROOT, Reflections on Everyday Taste. Furniture Shops, Department Stores and the Furnishing of the Home, 1895-1940   III. European Perspectives: BERND ROECK, Neighbourhoods and the Public in German Cities of the Early Modern Period. A Magician and the Neighourhood Network   UTE FREVERT, The Middle Classes as Public and Private. Culture, Gender and Modernization in the Nineteenth Century   JOAN PERKIN, Women, Marriage and Class in Nineteenth-Century England   MARTINA SEGALEN, The House Between Private and Public: A Socio-Historical Overview