Family Life and Illicit Love in Earlier Generations: Essays in Historical Sociology - Hardcover

Laslett, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521214084 ISBN 13: 9780521214087

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1977

Synopsis

This is a book about the history of family life in several senses. The author puts forward a thesis about the European family in relation to the conspicuous differences between European economic and social development and that of the rest of the world. He discusses the numbers and functions of servants, the numbers and situation of orphans and the aged, and the difficult question of whether American slaves lived in families at all. There is an extended analysis of the extraordinary turnover in population in England and in Europe in pre-industrial times, and a full discussion of the figures for English illegitimacy since Shakespeare's day. There is also a consideration of the elusive topic of the age of sexual maturity and its variations over time. The book represents some of the results of the first fifteen years of work in the newly instituted subject of historical sociology with particular reference to the family.

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Book Description:

This is a book about family life in several senses. The author puts forward the thesis about the European family in relation to the conspicuous differences between European economic social development and the rest of the world, discussing servants, orphans and the aged, illegitimacy, and the difficult question of whether American slaves live in families at all.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0521214084
• ISBN 13: 9780521214087
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280