{"product_id":"2026100009793-secondhand-the-family-sex-and-marriage-in-england-1500-1800","title":"The Family, Sex And Marriage: In England 1500-1800","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew works have so fundamentally reshaped our understanding of private life as Lawrence Stone's monumental The Family, Sex and Marriage: In England 1500-1800 — a sweeping, meticulously researched chronicle of how the most intimate human relationships were formed, contested, and transformed across three turbulent centuries of English history. Stone presents a panoramic social history that tracks the evolution of the family unit from the cold, emotionally distant households of the Tudor period, bound by property and patriarchal authority, through to the warmer, affection-centred companionate marriages of the Georgian era, arguing that a profound revolution in human feeling quietly reshaped English society from within.\n\nDrawing on an extraordinary breadth of primary sources — diaries, letters, legal records, and ecclesiastical court documents — Stone constructs a richly textured portrait of how attitudes toward love, sexuality, childhood, and domestic life underwent a seismic shift. His prose is authoritative yet accessible, and his argument remains one of the most ambitious and debated in the field of social history, inviting readers to question just how natural the modern family truly is. Whether one accepts or challenges his thesis, The Family, Sex and Marriage stands as an indispensable landmark of historical scholarship that continues to provoke and illuminate in equal measure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203285754075,"sku":"2026100009793-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/751a4629-0efd-4df7-8ba6-ad63fb6082e4.png?v=1788147569","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009793-secondhand-the-family-sex-and-marriage-in-england-1500-1800","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}