The World We Have Lost is a seminal work in the study of family and class, kinship and community in England after the Middle Ages and before the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution. The book explores the size and structure of families in pre-industrial England, the number and position of servants, the elite minority of gentry, rates of migration, the ability to read and write, the size and constituency of villages, cities and classes, conditions of work and social mobility.
| ISBN | 0415315271 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9780415315272
(What's this?) | | Pages | 392 | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 476 | | Imprint | Routledge | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780415228336 | | Publication date | 15 Apr 2005 | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Non-book description | ADB | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Writer of introduction | Richard Smith | | Spine width (mm) | 21 | | Library of Congress | HN385 | | Academic level | Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY | 306.09420903 | |
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1. English Society Before and After the Coming of Industry 2. A One-Class Society 3. The Village Community 4. Misbeliefs about our Ancestors 5. Births, Marriages and Deaths 6. Did the Peasants Really Starve? 7. Personal Discipline and Social Survival 8. Social Change and Revolution in the Traditional World 9. The Pattern of Authority and our Political Heritage 10. The Politics of Exclusion and the Rule of an Elite 11. After the Transformation 12. Understanding Ourselves in Time
'It will remain our classic guide to the lost world of the past, a tribute to one of the great pioneering imaginative historians of our time.' - New Society
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