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An acclaimed account of family and community in medieval England
and Laslett's best-known and most influential book A renowned
scholar Laslett was also pioneer in bringing history to a wider
audience, writing and presenting radio and TV programmes and
founding the Open University in the 1960s This Routledge Classics
edition includes a new Foreword by Kevin Schurer, helpfully placing
Laslett and his book in context
An acclaimed account of family and community in medieval England
and Laslett's best-known and most influential book A renowned
scholar Laslett was also pioneer in bringing history to a wider
audience, writing and presenting radio and TV programmes and
founding the Open University in the 1960s This Routledge Classics
edition includes a new Foreword by Kevin Schurer, helpfully placing
Laslett and his book in context
"Debating Deliberative Democracy" explores the nature and value of
deliberation, the feasibility and desirability of consensus on
contentious issues, the implications of institutional complexity
and cultural diversity for democratic decision making, and the
significance of voting and majority rule in deliberative
arrangements.
Investigates the nature and value of deliberation, the feasibility
and desirability of consensus on contentious issues, the
implications of institutional complexity and cultural diversity for
democratic decision making, and the significance of voting and
majority rule in deliberative arrangements.
Includes focus on institutions and makes reference to empirical
work.
Engages a debate that cuts across political science, philosophy,
the law and other disciplines.
Thanks to improved food, medicine, and living conditions, the
average age of the population is increasing throughout the modern
industrialized world. Yet, despite the recent upsurge of scholarly
interest in the lives of older people and the blossoming of
historical demography, little historical demographic attention has
been paid to the lives of the elderly. A landmark volume, Aging in
the Past marks the emergence of the historical demographic study of
aging. Following a masterly explication of the new field by Peter
Laslett, leading scholars in family history and historical
demography offer new research results and fresh analyses that
greatly increase our understanding of aging, historically and
across cultures. Focusing primarily on post-Industrial Europe and
the United States, they explore a range of issues under the broad
topics of living arrangements, widowhood, and retirement and
mortality. This important work provides a much-needed historical
perspective on and suggests possible alternative solutions to the
problems of the aged. Contributors: George Alter, Rudolf Andorka,
Allen C. Goodman, Myron P. Gutmann, Michael R. Haines, E. A.
Hammel, Tamara K. Hareven, Nancy Karweit, David I. Kertzer, Peter
Laslett, Andrejs Plakans, Roger L. Ransom, Daniel Scott Smith,
Richard Sutch, Peter Uhlenberg, Richard Wall, Charles Wetherell
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1995.
This is a new revised version of Dr. Laslett's standard edition of Two Treatises. First published in 1960, and based on an analysis of the whole body of Locke's publications, writings, and papers. The Introduction and text have been revised to incorporate references to recent scholarship since the second edition and the bibliography has been updated.
The prospect of spending long years in reasonable health and
scarcely impaired activity, far beyond the convenient landmark of
retirement, has already become the norm-without anybody really
noticing it, let alone appreciating the implications. In this
highly original and perhaps controversial book, Peter Laslett urges
us to plan ahead for personal enrichment-before retirement and
before the children leave home-before we reach the Third Age.
This is the revised version of Peter Laslett's acclaimed edition of
Two Treatises of Government, which is widely recognised as one of
the classic pieces of recent scholarship in the history of ideas,
read and used by students of political theory throughout the world.
This 1988 edition revises Dr Laslett's second edition (1970) and
includes an updated bibliography, a guide to further reading and a
fully reset and revised introduction which surveys advances in
Locke scholarship since publication of the second edition. In the
introduction, Dr Laslett shows that the Two Treatises were not a
rationalisation of the events of 1688 but rather a call for a
revolution yet to come.
This is an extremely important collection of essays in historical
social structure. The volume represents the first attempt to
examine in historical and comparative terms the general belief that
in the past all families were larger than they are today; that the
nuclear family of man, wife and children living alone is
particularly characteristic of the present time and came into being
with the arrival of industry.
Originally published in 1960, this analysis of all of Locke's
publications quickly became established as the standard edition of
the Treatises as well as a work of political theory in its own
right.
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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