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The World We Have Lost: Further Explored - Hardcover

Laslett Peter

 
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Synopsis

The World We Have Lost is a seminal work in the study of family and cl, kin and community in England after the Middle Ages and before the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution. The book explores the size and structure of families in pre-industrial England, the number and position of servants, the elite minority of gentry, rates of migration, the ability to read and write, the size and constituency of villages, cities and cles, conditions of work and social mobility.

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Review

It will remain our classic guide to the lost world of the past, a tribute to one of the great pioneering imaginative historians of our time.' - New Society

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