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This is a book about family life in several senses. The author puts forward the thesis about the European family in relation to the conspicuous differences between European economic social development and the rest of the world, discussing servants, orphans and the aged, illegitimacy, and the difficult question of whether American slaves live in families at all.Laslett, Peter is the author of 'Family Life and Illicit Love in Earlier Generations Essays in Historical Sociology' with ISBN 9780521214087 and ISBN 0521214084.
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