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Kinship and Capitalism. Marriage, Family, and Business in the English-Speaking World, 1580-1740.

Category: Ionian History
Type: Standard
Book Title: Enterprise in Modern Britain
Author: Grassby Richard
Editor: Kirby W. Maurice and Rose B. Mary
Pages: 88-112
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press
Library catalog: K.S.P.
Date: 2001
Location: Cambridge
Tags: family     types of family     kinship     

Abstract:

[9-10] Family Models. The family can be regarded as a psychological, biological, social, economic, or political construct. It can be extended upward, downward, and laterally through intermarriage or by incorporating household servants. .... It has never been a rigid institution, and its structure has changed continuously with the life cycle, as its members move in and out, marry, age, and die. .... nuclear family, extended family, household.


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