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Household and Family in Past Time: Comparative Studies in the Size and Structure of the Domestic Group over the Last Three Centuries in England, France, Serbia, Japan and Colonial North America, with Further Materials from Western Europe

By Peter Laslett , Richard Wall

Book information

Year
1972
ISBN
9780521084734, 9780511561207, 0521099013, 0521084733, 0511561202, 9780521099011
LCC
HQ515
Open Library ID
OL21487011M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (25454371 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
623\628
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This is an extremely important collection of essays in historical social structure. The volume represents the first attempt to examine in historical and comparative terms the general belief that in the past all families were larger than they are today; that the nuclear family of man, wife and children living alone is particularly characteristic of the present time and came into being with the arrival of industry.

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