Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-328) and index.
Contents
1. The World That Slips through Our Fingers: A Framework for the History of the Family -- 2. The Prescriptive Family, c.1450-1700 -- 3. The Descriptive Family -- 1: The Wider Family -- 4. The Descriptive Family -- 2: Co-Resident Relations -- 5. A Day's Work for a Day's Victuals: The Families of the Very Poor.