The World We Have Lost

by Laslett, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780415228336
• ISBN10: 0415228336
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Preface to the Reissue, 2000	ix
Introduction to the Third Edition	xv
Introduction to the First Edition	xix
English Society Before and After the Coming of Industry
The passing of the patriarchal household: parents and children, masters and servants	1	(21)
A One-Class Society
Social divisions and power relations amongst nobility, gentry, townsmen and peasants	22	(31)
The Village Community
The scale of life in cottage, farmstead, manor house and church	53	(28)
Misbeliefs About Our Ancestors
The absence of child marriage and extended family households from the English past	81	(25)
Births, Marriages and Deaths
The recovery of the English population record since the close of the Middle Ages	106	(16)
Did the Peasants Really Starve?
Famine and pestilence amongst English people in the pre-industrial past	122	(31)
Personal Discipline and Social Survival
With notes on the history of bastardy and of sexual nonconformism in England	153	(29)
Social Change and Revolution in the Traditional World
With an attempt to expunge the phrase 'the English Revolution'	182	(28)
The Pattern of Authority and Our Political Heritage
Social deference, political obedience and the county community of gentry	210	(19)
The Politics of Exclusion and the Rule of an Elite
Literacy and social mobility in the traditional social structure	229	(17)
After the Transformation
English society in the early twentieth century	246	(28)
Understanding Ourselves in Time	274	(13)
GENERAL NOTE	287	(5)
Files of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Notes to the Text	292	(49)
List of Authorities	341	(6)
Index	347