The Family and Family Relationships 1500-1900 : England, France and the United States of America (Themes in Comparative History)

O'Day, Rosemary

Palgrave Macmillan（1994/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 368 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780333372937
• DDC分類 306

Full Description

While historians have written with ease about the state and the church, the family has so far defied historical analysis. As the primary cell of human social organisation, upon which both state and church depend, it is of crucial importance. In this concise, informative and stimulating book, Rosemary O'Day seeks to explain the difficulties facing the historian of the family and to suggest strategies for their solution. She compares families and households in time, space and economy over the period 1500-1914 and draws together the important existing work.

Contents

List of Tables.- General Editor's Preface.- Introduction.- The World That Slips Through Our Fingers: A Framework for the History of the Family.- The Prescriptive Family, c.1450-1700.- The Descriptive Family 1: The Wider Family.- The Descriptive Family 2: Co-Relations.- A Day's Work for a Day's Victuals: The Families of the Very Poor in the Nineteenth Century.- Conclusion.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.