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Laddar... The World we have lost: further exploredav Peter Laslett
   Ingen/inga Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken.  SunnyJim | Mar 23, 2016 |  inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
The World We Have Lost is a seminal work in the study of family and class, kinship and community in England after the Middle Ages and before the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution. The book explores the size and structure of families in pre-industrial England, the number and position of servants, the elite minority of gentry, rates of migration, the ability to read and write, the size and constituency of villages, cities and classes, conditions of work and social mobility. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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 Google Books — Laddar...GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)306.0941Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Culture and Institutions Biography And History Europe British IslesKlassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg: (3.67)
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Already in its third edition in 1983, it promises a lot (for example: "Misbeliefs about our ancestors")and is backed up by an impressive list of tables (for example: "Illegitimacy ratios in England, 1540s-1840s").
However, it's a hard read. There is much superfluous, flowery language and you can't help feeling that it is preaching to the initiated. On pg. 277, for example, we read : "From this flows an irreverent impatience with established conventions of the subject as it has been traditionally studied in our country".
So, this is a book that's a bit up itself. I guess that's fine if you like to contemplate issues of social history in fine and synthesised detail with fellow practitioners, but my view is that it has little to offer the curious, general reader.
Being generous, I would say that the book is of its time (it was first published in 1965), of its class and best suited to academic study. (