The History of the Family as Social History

FAIN: FS-10557-77

Brown University (Providence, RI 02912-9100)
Joan W. Scott (Project Director: January 1977 to present)

To examine the literature on the history of the family and to determine whether the history of the family offers a way of organizing and focusing the study and teaching of social history. Process by which countries of Western Europe were transformed from rural peasant societies to urban, industrial populations will receive special attention.