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. In this concise, informative and stimulating book, Rosemary O'Day seeks to explain the difficulties facing the historian of the family and to suggest strategies for their solution. She compares families and households in time, space and economy over the period 1500-1914 and draws together the important existing work.
- ISBN10 0333372948
- ISBN13 9780333372944
- Publish Date 26 October 1994 (first published 1 January 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 June 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 368
- Language English