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The World We Have Lost is a fundamental work in the study of family, class, kinship, and community in England following the Middle Ages and before the Industrial Revolution. The size and structure of households in pre-industrial England, the number and status of servants, the elite minority of gentry, migration patterns, literacy rates, the size and composition of villages, cities, and classes, working conditions, and social mobility are all explored in this book.
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“One of Paul Graham's answers to "what should I read to learn more about history?"”
