The family forms of historic Europe have been fascinating in their variety. Their importance
for the historical development of our continent would be difficult to exaggerate; for our�…

The decade of the 1960s has emerged as a turning point of sorts in family studies, as a time
when at least some analysts began to penetrate the cloud of social myths, ideologies, and�…

This article explores the relationship of historical research to contemporary family studies.
Family history was influenced greatly by fields such as sociology and anthropology, leading�…

Discusses eight books considered to approach the problem of the history and sociology of
the family from the perspective of modernization, asserting that the relatively loose concept�…

Over the past thirty years family history has been one of the most important and controversial
growth areas in the development of social history. In this guide to the burgeoning literature�…

RECENT HISTORICAL RESEARCH ON THE FAMILY has revised some widely held myths
about family life in the past as well as generalizations about the impact of the grand�…