Time, Family and Community: Perspectives on Family and Community History

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

Part I: Approaches to the History of Family or Community:.

Recent Research on the History of the Family: Tamara K. Hareven.

Biography, Family History and the Analysis of Social Change: Brian Elliott.

Part II: The Family, Past and Present:.

What is New About the Modern Family?: Michael Anderson.

Do Families Support Each Other More or Less Than in the Past?: Janet Finch.

Theories of Family Development and the Experience of Being Brought Up: Lynn Jamieson.

Women and the Domestic Economy, 1890-1970: The Oral Evidence: Elizabeth Roberts.

Part III: Migration and Movement:.

E. G. Ravenstein and the 'Laws of Migration' : D. B. Grigg.

Historians and Immigration: Colin Holmes.

Migration and the Social History of Modern Europe: James H. Jackson, Jr and Leslie Page Moch.

Part IV: A Sense of Community:.

'Community' and the Social Geography of Victorian Cities: Richard Dennis and Stephen Daniels.

Natives and Incomers: The Symbolism of Belonging in Muker Parish, North Yorkshire: Scott K. Phillips.

Avoiding the Ghetto: Pakistani Migrants and Settlement Shifts in Manchester: Phina Werbner.

Community and Nation in the Past: Perception and Reality: Dennis Mills.

Glossary.

Recommended Reading List.

Index.