Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England
Subtitle: Household, Kinship and Patronage
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 27, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780521039734
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Social history; c 1700 to c 1800; History; History - General History; History: World; England; Europe - Great Britain - General; General; Sociology - Marriage & Family; England--Social life and customs--18th centur; England--Social life and customs--18th century; Family & Relationships : General; History / Great Britain; Social Science : Sociology - Marriage & Family; Western Europe - General
First sentence: In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, we are told, the English family was characteristically nuclear.