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.

Laslett, Peter and Richard Wall.

ISBN 10: 0521084733 / ISBN 13: 9780521084734

Published by Cambridge At the University Press,, 1972

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Light, minor cover shelfwear; previous owner's name in ink on front free endpaper. Pages tight, clean, unmarked. No DJ. Not a former library copy; no underlining, etc. ;

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 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.
• Publisher: Cambridge At the University Press,
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521084733
• ISBN 13: 9780521084734
• Binding: Hardcover

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Synopsis

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.