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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