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Family Ties contributes to the academic and popular debate on the family byproviding a vivid and accessible exploration of the dynamics of life in Englishfamilies of all ranks from the midsixteenth century to the end of World War I.Organized both chronologically and thematically and accompanied by sections onmethods approaches and sources it explores such fundamental historicalissues as cause and effect continuity and change and the nature andreliability of evidence. It also examines several important subthemesincluding the history of childhood and of marriage across a broad social andchronological span.Mary Abbott draws on a rich vein of personal testimony by including extensivecontemporary quotations supported by a variety of unusual and in many casespreviously unpublished illustrations and a wide range of sources includingimages artefacts and buildings. Family Ties provides fascinating insightinto methods of historical investigation and encourages the reader to challengetraditional documentary sources. «
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