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

by Peter Laslett

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521214084
• ISBN13: 9780521214087
• Release Date: October 1977
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"