Contrasts England before industrialization with twentieth-century England

The World We Have Lost: Further Explored

Politics & Social Sciences

Laslett, Peter

Social Sciences

Scribner

A Fresh Map of Life: The Emergence of the Third Age

Today as never before, most people in the developed world at least, can expect to live to old age. How has society reacted to this shift of mortality? Much of the accepted account of ageing is simply the persistence into our own time of past perceptions. Laslett argues that the Third Age - beyond the breadwinning and child-rearing years - is that of greatest personal fulfilment, the apogee of life. Combining social history, sociology and philosophy, this book provokes new thinking on one of the crucial changes in the modern world.

Parenting & Relationships

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The World We Have Lost (Routledge Classics)

What was life like in England before the Industrial Revolution? The World We Have Lost is widely regarded as a classic of historical writing and a vital book in reshaping our understanding of the past and the structure of family life in England. 
Turning away from the prevailing fixation of history on a grand scale, Laslett instead asks some simple yet fundamental questions about England before the Industrial Revolution: How long did people live? How did they treat their children? Did they get enough to eat? What were the levels of literacy? His findings overturned much received wisdom: girls did not generally marry in their early teens, but often worked before marrying at much the same ages that young people marry today. Most people did not live in extended families, or even live their whole lives in the same villages. Going beyond the immediate structure of the family, he also explores the position of servants, the gentry, rates of migration, work and social mobility. 
Laslett’s classic work was crucial in causing an important sociological turn in early modern English history and remains as fresh and exhilarating today as upon its first publication. 
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Kevin Schürer.

Business & Money

Economics

Routledge

The World We Have Lost is a seminal work in the study of family and class, kinship and community in England after the Middle Ages and before the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution. The book explores the size and structure of famil

History

Europe

The World We Have Lost

The World We Have Lost is a seminal work in the study of family and class, kinship and community in England after the Middle Ages and before the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution. The book explores the size and structure of families in pre-industrial England, the number and position of servants, the elite minority of gentry, rates of migration, the ability to read and write, the size and constituency of villages, cities and classes, conditions of work and social mobility.

The world we have lost

METHUEN

The world we have lost: Further explored

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.

Household and Family in Past Times (Publications / Cambridge Group for the History of Population)

Wall, R.

Cambridge University Press

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.

Family Life and Illicit Love in Earlier Generations: Essays in Historical Sociology

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The World We Have Lost: Further Explored

A Fresh Map of Life: The Emergence of the Third Age

The World We Have Lost (Routledge Classics)

The World We Have Lost (Routledge Classics)

The World We Have Lost: Further Explored

The world we have lost

The world we have lost: Further explored

Household and Family in Past Times (Publications / Cambridge Group for the History of Population)

Family Life and Illicit Love in Earlier Generations: Essays in Historical Sociology

Family Life and Illicit Love in Earlier Generations: Essays in Historical Sociology