Institute of History University of Warsaw

Monographs:
 
(2015) Rethinking East-central Europe: family systems and co-residence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Peter Lang: Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 1066 pp; 2 vols. (https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/11044)
 
Reviews:
R. Frost, The Slavic Review (2017), https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/article/rethinking-eastcentral-europe-family-systems-and-coresidence-in-the-polishlithuanian-commonwealth-by-mikolaj-szoltysek-population-family-and-society-vol-211-bern-peter-lang-2015-xxx-1062-pp-bibliography-index-tables-maps-17395-hard-bound/6C05CDAC111A9C76BFD749BC9F7B2ECF
 
P.P. Viazzo, Popolazione e Storia (2017), https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319525875_Review_of_Rethinking_East-Central_Europe_by_PP_Viazzo_Popolazione_e_Storia
 
A. Plakans, Journal of Family History (2017), http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0363199016680224?journalCode=jfha
 
O. Sorescu-Iudean, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (2018), https://www.dokumente.ios-regensburg.de/JGO/Rez/Sorescu-Iudean_Szoltysek_Rethinking_East-Central_Europe.html
 
Journal articles/book chapters:
 
(2017). Age heaping patterns in Mosaic data. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2017.1393359
(2017) The Patriarchy Index: A New Measure of Gender and Generational Inequalities in the Past. Cross-Cultural Research 51 (3): 228 – 262 [first author, with Klüsener, S., Poniat, R., and S. Gruber]
(2017) “Girl Power” in Eastern Europe? The human capital development of Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries and its determinants. European Review of Economic History 21 (1): 29-63 (with J. Baten and M. Campestrini)
(2016) Historical family systems and European inequalities: a way forward for the future. In Koen Matthijs, Saskia Hin, Jan Kok & Hideko Matsuo (Eds.), The future of historical demography: Upside down and inside out, Publisher: ACCO Uitgeverij, pp.59-52.
(2016) A stem-family society without the stem family ideology? The case of eighteenth-century Poland, The History of the Family,21 (4), 502-530.
(2016) De invloed van demografi sche parameters op de huishoudsamenstelling in het achttiende-eeuwse Oost-Europa. Wat kunnen we leren door data van historische volkstellingen en uitkomsten van microsimulaties te vergelijken? In Puschmann, P., Paping, R. & Matthijs, K. (Eds.),  Familie en levenskansen in het verleden. Jaarboek. Leuven: Acco, 153-182.
(2016) Mosaic: recovering surviving census records and reconstructing the familial history of Europe. The History of the Family, 21(1), 38-60 (first author, with S. Gruber).
 (2016) The patriarchy index: a comparative study of power relations across historical Europe. The History of the Family, 21(2), 133-174 (with S. Gruber).
(2015) Fertilität und Familienformationen in historischer Perspektive. In: Niephaus, Y. et al.(Eds.), Handbuch Bevölkerungssoziologie, pp. 179-200. Springer: Wiesb (with G. Fertig).
(2015). Residence patterns and demographic constraints: The case of historical Eastern Europe; Journal of Family History 40 (3), 323-350.
(2015). Households and family systems in early modern Europe. In book: The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750, Volume I: Peoples and Place., Chapter:, Publisher: Oxford: Oxford University Press., Editors: H. Scott, pp.313-341.
(2015) Residence patterns and the human-ecological setting in historical Eastern Europe: a challenge of compositional (re)analysis. In P. Kreager, B. Winney, S. Ulijaszek, C. Capelli (eds.), Population in the human sciences: concepts, models, evidence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 431-468.
(2014). Living arrangements of the elderly in two Eastern European joint-family societies: Poland-Lithuania around 1800 and Albania in 1918, The Hungarian Historical Review, 3(1), 101-140 [first author, with S. Gruber].
(2014) Spatial variation in household structure in 19th-century Germany, Population-E, 69 (1), 55-80 (with Gruber, S., Klüsener, S., and Goldstein, J. R).
(2014). Family systems and welfare provision in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: discrepancies and similarities, Białoruskie Zeszyty Historyczne / Беларускі гістарычны зборнікm 42, 25-57.
(2012). Spatial construction of European family and household systems: promising path or blind alley? An Eastern European perspective. Continuity and Change 27(1), 11-52.
(2011). ‘Living arrangements and household formation in an industrializing urban setting: Rostock 1867-1900’, Annales de démographie historique, 122(2), 233-269. [first author, with Gruber S., Zuber-Goldstein B., Scholz R.]
(2009). Historical family systems and the great European divide: the invention of the Slavic East. Demográfia (English edition) 52(5): 5-47. [first author, with B. Zuber-Goldstein].
(2009). ‘Life cycle service and family systems in the rural countryside: a lesson from historical East-Central Europe’, Annales de Démographie Historique, 1, 53-94.
(2009). Female headship, household position, and gendered well-being in peasant societies: evidence from the territories of the historical Kingdom of Poland (18th century)’. In M. Durães, A. Fauve-Chamoux, L. Ferrer, and J. Kok (eds), The transmission of well-being: gendered marriage strategies and inheritance systems in Europe (17th-20th centuries), pp. 447-486. Bern: Peter Lang.
(2008). Three kinds of preindustrial household formation system in historical Eastern Europe: A challenge to spatial patterns of the European family’, The History of the Family 13(3), 223-257.
(2008). Rethinking Eastern Europe: household formation patterns in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and European family systems’, Continuity and Change, 23, 389-427.
(2007). Central European household and family systems, and the “Hajnal-Mitterauer” line: the parish of Bujakow (18th-19th centuries)’, The History of the Family, 1, 19-42.