| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 244 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Marriage, separation and the common law in England, 1540-1660 / Tim Stretton -- Republican reformation: family, community and the state in Interregnum Middlesex, 1649-60 / Bernard Capp -- Keeping it in the family: crime and the early modern household / Garthine Walker -- Faces in the crowd: gender and age in the early modern English crowd / John Walter -- 'Without the cry of any neighbours': a Cumbrian family and the poor law authorities, c.1690-1730 / Steve Hindle -- Childless men in early modern England / Helen Berry and Elizabeth Foyster -- Aristocratic women and ideas of family in the early eighteenth century / Ingrid Tague -- Reassessing parenting in eighteenth-century England / Joanne Bailey. |
| Summary |
With an appeal to scholars of early modern British history, social history, family history and gender studies, this work sheds light on family ideals and experiences in the early modern period. It features contributions by distinguished historians of family life and a new generation of historians working in the field. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Families -- England -- History.
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Families. |
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England. |
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History. |
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Marriage -- England -- History.
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Marriage. |
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Sex role -- England -- History.
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Sex role. |
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England -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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England -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Subject |
Marriage. |
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Gender roles. |
| Added Author |
Berry, Helen, 1969-
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Foyster, Elizabeth A., 1968-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Family in early modern England. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007 9780521858762 (DLC) 2008297274 (OCoLC)154706383 |
| ISBN |
9780511457166 (electronic book) |
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0511457162 (electronic book) |
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9780511495694 |
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0511495692 |
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9780521858762 (hardback) |
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0521858763 (hardback) |
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9780511455094 |
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0511455097 |
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