Edition |
Abridged edition. |
Description |
446 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimile, portraits ; 21 cm. |
Series |
Harper torchbooks ; TB 1979
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Contents |
Problems, methods and definitions -- The demographic facts -- Family characteristics -- The decline of kinship, clientage and community -- The reinforcement of patriarchy -- The growth of affective individualism -- Mating arrangements -- The companionate marriage -- Parent-child relations -- Upper-class attitudes and behaviour -- Gentlemanly sexual behaviour: Pepys and Boswell -- Plebian sexual behaviour -- Facts, interpretations, and post-1800 developments. |
Note |
Includes index. |
Subject |
Families -- England -- History.
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Marriage -- England -- History.
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England -- Social life and customs -- History.
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ISBN |
0061319791 |
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