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

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Title:

Author:

Laslett, Peter.

ISBN:

9780521084734

Personal Author:

Laslett, Peter.

Publication Information:

Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press, 1972.

Physical Description:

xii, 623 p. : illus., maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

A publication of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.

Publication (Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure)

Subject Term:

Genealogy.

Family size -- History.

Added Author:

Wall, Richard, 1944-

Copies:

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Library	Material Type	Item Barcode	Shelf Number	Copy	Status
Searching... 1:IIEMSA	1:GEN-BOOK	33168015721323	301.421 L345H 1972	1	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

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.