Family Life and Illicit Love in Earlier Generations: Essays in Historical Sociology

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.Peter Laslett is the author of 'Family Life and Illicit Love in Earlier Generations: Essays in Historical Sociology', published 1977 under ISBN 9780521292214 and ISBN 0521292212.