Family Life and Illicit Love in Earlier Generations
Essays in Historical Sociology
- Author: Peter Laslett
- Date Published: March 2011
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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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- Date Published: March 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511865237
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Introduction: the necessity of a historical sociology
1. Characteristics of the Western family considered over time
2. Clayworth and Cogenhoe
3. Long-term trends in bastardy in England
4. Parental deprivation in the past: a note on orphans and stepparenthood in English history
5. The history of aging and the aged
6. Age at sexual maturity in Europe since the Middle Ages
7. Household and family on the slave plantations of the USA
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