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Peter Laslett
The World We Have Lost is widely regarded as a classic of historical writing and remains as fresh and exhilarating today as upon its first publication. This Routledge Classics edition…
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An updated re-issue of the third edition of this guide to family and community in England after the Middle Ages and before the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution.
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The prospect of spending long years in reasonable health and scarcely impaired activity, far beyond the convenient landmark of retirement, has already become the norm-without anybody really noticing it, let…
The author puts forward the thesis about the European family in relation to the conspicuous differences between European economic social development and the rest of the world, discussing servants, orphans…
John Locke
Originally published in 1960, this analysis of all of Locke’s publications quickly became established as the standard edition of the Treatises as well as a work of political theory in…
Peter Laslett,R. Wall
This is an extremely important collection of essays in historical social structure.
A version of Peter Laslett’s acclaimed Two Treatises of Government, widely recognised as one of the classic pieces of recent scholarship in the history of ideas. This 1988 edition revises…
This edition revises Dr Laslett’s second edition (1970) and includes an updated bibliography, a guide to further reading and a fully reset and revised introduction which surveys recent advances in…
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This text offers new research results and analyses on ageing, historically and across cultures. The average age of the world’s population is increasing, but there has been little historical demographical…
Thanks to improved food, medicine, and living conditions, the average age of the population is increasing throughout the modern industrialized world. Yet, despite the recent upsurge of scholarly interest in…
Debating Deliberative Democracy explores the nature and value of deliberation, the feasibility and desirability of consensus on contentious issues, the implications of institutional complexity and cultural diversity for democratic decision…
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