This review examines one of the most fundamental issues of family history, the nature of
domestic groups in which people lived in the past. The focus is further limited to the�…

Whence and whither family history? In his bibliographic and programmatic essay,
Hobsbawm (1971) did not mention family history as a subfield of what was then the relatively�…

This survey of the literature on the history of the family in Western Europe examines recent
research along three lines: studies of particular social classes; demographic history and�…

This historical anthropology of the family represents a new departure in family studies. Over
the past ten years or so, the social scientific sociological analysis of the family has�…

The historical study of the family has recently experienced a shift from the classification of
household structure at individual points in time to analysis from a developmental�…

This essay examines the recent historical research on the family with the objective of
identifying useful lessons for students of the contemporary family. The following themes in�…

In recent years, the family has emerged as a major subject of historica inquiry.'Numerous
books and articles have appeared describing, among other things, the composition, kinship�…

The renewal ofsocial history in the 1960s and thereafter challenged the standard historical
emphasis on explanation by motive, validation by motive-revealing texts, and explication by�…

lvhis paper proposes an alternative mode of analysis of family patterns in nineteenth-century
society. Underlying this approach is a view of the family as a process over time rather than�…

Though anthropologists have been aware at least since Fortes's (1949a, 1949b) pioneering
work on the Ashanti and the Tallensi that time is an important dimension of domestic�…