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This collection of essays covers most of the important topics in the field of family history, assesses the state of the art, and stresses the themes that will c

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 or

Over the past decade or so, the social scientific sociological analysis of the family has been obliged to reconsider its traditional view that industrialisation