The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800

860 Pages·1977·77.91 MB·English

by  Laurence Stone

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THE FAMILY,
SEX AND
MARRIAGE
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THE FAMILY,
SEX AND
MARRIAGE
In England 1500-1800
LAWRENCE STONE
HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS
New York, Hagerstown, San Francisco, London
Copyright© 1977 by Lawrence Stone.
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International Standard Book Number:
o--o6-oi4142-5
Library of Congress Catalog Card
Number: 77-50
Manufactured in the United States of America
TO MY FAMILY, WITHOUT WHOM ...
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The problems, being existential, are universal; their solutions, being human, are
diverse ... The road to the grand abstractions ofs cience winds through a
thicket ofs ingular facts.
(C. Geertz, The Interpretation o[Cultures, New York, 1973, p. 363.)
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