Volume 22, Number 18 · November 13, 1975
The Family and History
By Christopher Lasch
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
The American Family in Social-Historical Perspective
edited by Michael Gordon
St. Martin's Press, 421 pp., $5.95 (paper)
The World We Have Lost
by Peter Laslett
Scribner's, 325 pp., $3.50 (paper)
World Revolution and Family Patterns
by William J. Goode
Free Press, 444 pp., $3.95 (paper)
Household and Family in Past Time
edited by Peter Laslett, edited by Richard Wall
Cambridge University Press, 623 pp., $9.95 (paper)
The Family in History: Interdisciplinary Essays
edited by Theodore K. Rabb, edited by Robert I. Rotberg
Harper & Row, 240 pp., $3.95 (paper)
Journal of Marriage and the Family
special issue on the history of the family
Vol. 35, no. 3 pp.
The Wish To Be Free: Society, Psyche, and Value Change
by Fred Weinstein, by Gerald M. Platt
University of California Press, 330 pp., $3.85 (paper)
The Making of the Modern Family
by Edward Shorter
Basic Books, 260 pp., $15.00
The history of the family, once the province of amateurs and antiquarians, has become an academic industry. The prolonged 'crisis' of the modern family, the feminist revival, the growing prestige of the social sciences and the hope that historians can share it have all contributed to the current fascination with the subject. But there is a more important consideration—the possibility that the history of the family provides the missing link between cultural and intellectual history on the one hand and politico-economic history on the other; between the study of culture and the study of social structure, production, and power.
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