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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This is a book about family life in several senses. The author puts forward the thesis about the European family in relation to the conspicuous differences between European economic social development and the rest of the world, discussing servants, orphans and the aged, illegitimacy, and the difficult question of whether American slaves live in families at all.
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Institutions and cultural complexes have to possess some persistence over time, some perdurance, if they are to be significant for the historian of social structure. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
illegitimacy registration, parish register era, bastardy ratio, resident orphans, high industrial society, simple family households, kinship density, master sample, unchecked sets, illegitimacy ratio, illegitimacy figures, decades decades decades, status animarum, multiple family households, generational depth, maximal age, parental deprivation, menarcheal age, married offspring, select periods, family reconstitution, familial system, smaller plantations, tabular analysis, household position Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge Group, United States, Chilvers Coton, Good Hope, Corfe Castle, Population Studies, Western European, Great Russia, John Hajnal, American South, Christian Church, Emmanuel Todd, New York, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Stuart England, Ealing Middlesex, Emigration Immigration, European West, Human Biology, Puddletown Dorset, West Brabant, West Indies, William Sampson, Year Population Households Mean, Bilston Staffordshire New!
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Institutions and cultural complexes have to possess some persistence over time, some perdurance, if they are to be significant for the historian of social structure. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
illegitimacy registration, parish register era, bastardy ratio, resident orphans, high industrial society, simple family households, kinship density, master sample, unchecked sets, illegitimacy ratio, illegitimacy figures, decades decades decades, status animarum, multiple family households, generational depth, maximal age, parental deprivation, menarcheal age, married offspring, select periods, family reconstitution, familial system, smaller plantations, tabular analysis, household position Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge Group, United States, Chilvers Coton, Good Hope, Corfe Castle, Population Studies, Western European, Great Russia, John Hajnal, American South, Christian Church, Emmanuel Todd, New York, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Stuart England, Ealing Middlesex, Emigration Immigration, European West, Human Biology, Puddletown Dorset, West Brabant, West Indies, William Sampson, Year Population Households Mean, Bilston Staffordshire New!
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- Slavery in the Americas (Institute of Race Relations) by Herbert S. Klein on page 235, and Back Matter
- Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on page 218
- The Civil War by Robert P. Jordan on page 235
- Romeo and Juliet (Penguin Readers, Level 3) by William Shakespeare on page 218
- Romeo and Juliet (Simply Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on page 218
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- Women and Property: In Early Modern England by Amy Louise Erickson on 6 pages
- The Ties that Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England by Barbara A. Hanawalt on 5 pages
- Service and Dependency in Shakespeare's Plays by Judith Weil in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Growing Old in the Middle Ages: 'Winter Clothes Us in Shadow and Pain' by Shulamith Shahar in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- William Wordsworth's Golden Age Theories During the Industrial Revolution in Eng (Studies in Modern History) by Mark Keay in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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