Reproducing Families: The Political Economy of English Population History

by David P. Levine

Reviewing the course of English population history from 1066 to the eighties, this book challenges orthodoxies about the evolution of English family forms, and offers a bold interpretation of the inter-connections between social, economic, demographic and family history. Taking as the point of departure the well-known observations that England was the first industrial society, that it was the first society to have its peasantry replaced by proletarians...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521337852
• ISBN13: 9780521337854
• Release Date: August 1987
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"