Kin support and the English poor: evidence from Lancashire, c.1620–1710

The ‘nuclear hardship hypothesis’, argued by Peter Laslett in 1988, holds that that the prevalence of the nuclear household in early modern England, and the apparent weakness of kinship interactions outside it, left the burden of caring for the vulnerable squarely on the ‘collectivity’, most obvious...

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Autor Principal: Healey, J
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019