In September 1969, there was a meeting at Cambridge on the obscure and rather difficult
subject of the size and structure of household and family in past time. Organized by the�…

抄録< jats: p> 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�…

IN the past few years the British Social Science Research Council has been spending at
least� 100,000 per year on family and demographic history, very roughly the same amount�…

Our interest in this chapter is directed towards one particular subject, the size of the domestic
group in England, or England and Wales, from the late sixteenth to the late twentieth century�…

This volume is the result of a conference sponsored by the Cambridge Group for the Study of
Population and Social Structure in 1969. Laslett, who organized the conference, distributed�…

Russia In the introduction to the landmark Household and Family in Past Time, Laslett
observed that many conclusions that had been advanced about family life in the past�…

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�…

In this chapter the attempts of John Hajnal and Peter Laslett to conceptualize the family and
household systems of Europe as they existed in the past are reviewed and then extended on�…

This chapter explores a correction by charting variations in household size and structure
between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries and between one part of the country and�…

Because of the importance of the family and household in all societies and at all historical
periods, it is essential to be able to make comparisons between varieties of domestic�…