Family Life in Britain, 1650-1910

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Beardmore, Carol (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Dobbing, Cara (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), King, Steven (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Social history.; Great Britain-History.; Europe-History-1492-.; Social groups.; Family.; Social History.; History of Britain and Ireland.; History of Modern Europe.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.

This book explores the ways that families were formed and re-formed, and held together and fractured, in Britain from the sixteenth to twentieth century. The chapters build upon the argument, developed in the 1990s and 2000s, that the nuclear family form, the bedrock of understandings of the structu...