The First Modern Society
Subtitle: Essays in English History in Honour of Lawrence Stone (Past and Present Publications)
Contributors: A. L. Beier (Editor); David Cannadine (Editor); James M. Rosenheim (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 28, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 676
ISBN-13: 9780521364843
Subjects: Social history; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Great Britain - History; Western Europe - General; History - General History; Modern period, 1485-; History: American; British Isles; History; Europe - Great Britain - General; Great Britain--History--Modern period, 1485-; History / Great Britain; 1485-; Stone, Lawrence; England; Great Britain; Social conditions
First sentence: Lawrence Stone has played a key role in the 'new' history of the family which combines the techniques of historical demography developed by Louis Henry and by the Cambridge Group with the study of attitudes or mentalites pioneered by Philippe Aries.