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

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 childr...

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Weitere Verfasser: Laslett, Peter (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1972
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Zusammenfassung: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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Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 623 pages)
ISBN:9780511561207
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511561207