Well-Being in Amsterdam's Golden Age

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, INTRODUCTION, I, II, III, IV, IN THEIR PROPER PLACE:THE CIVIC HIERARCHY, I, Regents: The Ruling Elite, Common Citizens, Non-Citizen Residents and Temporary Inhabitants, -III, Strangers in the City, GRADIENTS OF WEALTH AND INCOME: THE ECONOMIC HIERARCHY, -I, The Wealthy Elite, The Middling Group, The Lower Orders and the Poor, -II, Responding to Economic Stress, -III, AT HOME IN AMSTERDAM:THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTAND EARLY DEATH,-I, -II, The Residential Environment, Housing Conditions, -III, INTIMATE INFERIORS:SERVANTS IN AMSTERDAM, -I, -II, Servants at Work, -III, Vulnerability and Conflicts, Conflicts about Earnings and Work, Conflicts about Dress, Conflicts about Sex and Intimacy, -IV, Changing Employers, -V, Preparing for the Future, A SINGULAR UNMARRIED WOMEN, -I, The Years before Marriage, Earning a Living: Single Men and Single Women, -II, The Significance of Marital Status, -III, Courtship and Marriage, -IV, Never-Married Men and Women, -V, THE FAMILY HOUSEHOLD:HUSBAND, WIFE, AND CHILDREN, -I, Family Orientation, -II, Starting Married Life: Husband and Wife, -III, Having Children, Controlling Fertility, -IV, Vulnerabilities and Early Deaths, -V,1 PARENTS AND CHILDREN,BROTHERS AND SISTERS,1 -I, Mother-Child Relations, -II, Father-Child Relations,-III, Growing Up, -IV,1 Siblings, Birth Intervals: A Matter of Life and Death, Grieving for Lost Children, Continuing Sibling Relationships, Sibling Inequalities and Discontents, -V, LOSING A SPOUSE AND APARENT, -I, The Emotional Loss, -II, Widowhood and the Gender Hierarchy, -III, The Widows of Regents and Other Wealthy Men, The Widows of Functionaries and Professionals, The Widows of Master Craftsmen, The Widows of Non-Citizen Residents and Temporary Inhabitants, -IV, Remarriage, -V, LOSING BOTH PARENTS:AMSTERDAM ORPHANS, -I, Being Orphaned, Emotional Loss and the Grieving Child, -II, Economic and Social Support, The Children of the Wealthy Elite, The Children of Other Amsterdam Citizens, Children of Non-Citizen Residents and Temporary Inhabitants,-III, The Orphanage Experience, A SUMMING UP, NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, THE AUTHOR , INDEX.