Product Description: Family and Kinship in England 1450-1800 guides the reader through the changing relationships that made up the nature of family life from the late medieval period to the beginnings of industrialisation. It gives a clear introduction to many of the intriguing areas of interest that this field of history has opened up, including childhood, youth, marriage, sexuality and death...read more

Product Description: Justin Eichenlaub, "The Infrastructural Uncanny: Oliver Twist in the Suburbs and Slums" Erin Gore-Wilson, "'No Certain Roof but the Coffin Lid': The Melodramatic Body and the Semiotics of Syphilis in Oliver Twist " Monica F. Cohen, "Making Piracy Pay: Fagin and Contested Authorship in Victorian Print Culture" Kattie Basnett, "Reversing Domestication in Dickens: Forging Masculine and Domestic Types through the Cross-Species" Timothy Gilmore, "Not Too Cheery: Dickens's Critique of Capital in Nicholas Nickleby " Christine L...read more

Product Description: This text was the first single volume in recent years to provide an overview and assessment of the most important research that has been published on the English family in the past three decades. Some of the most distinguished historians of family life, together with the next generation of historians working in the field, present previously unpublished archival research to shed light on family ideals and experiences in the early modern period...read more

Product Description: A Market Town and its Surrounding Villages is the first proper treatment that has ever been given not only to a single community but to a group of communities focused on a market town. Although numerous studies of local communities have been made, never before has anything like this group study been achieved...read more

Product Description: 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 organisation, upon which both state and church depend, it is of crucial importance...read more

Product Description: Himalayan Households is a comprehensive study of the cultural ecology, demography, and domestic organization of the Tamang, the largest Tibeto-Burman speaking population of Nepal. A people on the cusp of a major socio-economic transformation. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: r s1mily Ties provides a vivid and accessible introduction to the dynamics of life in English families of all ranks from the mid-sixteenth century to the end of World War I. Sections on methods, approaches and sources allow readers new to the study of the past to explore some of the historian's fundamental concerns: cause and effect; continuity and change and the nature and reliability of evidence...read more

Uses wills, coroners' rolls, and archaeological research to describe the homes, furnishings, clothing, food, kinship bonds, home economy, and stages of life of thirteenth-and fourteenth-century families (view table of contents)

Studies the evolution of English attitudes regarding marriage and sexuality in relation to the accompanying social, political, religious, and economic trends

Studies the evolution of English attitudes regarding marriage and sexuality in relation to the accompanying social, political, religious, and economic trends