Background
Gottlieb, Beatrice was born on June 6, 1925 in New York City. Daughter of Joseph and Anna (Slud) Gottlieb.
(During the last few decades the study of the family has f...)
During the last few decades the study of the family has flourished, and in the process many myths about what life was like two or three centuries ago have been debunked. For example, contrary to popular belief, we now know that most women in the preindustrial West did not marry before they were twenty-five. Most households consisted of no more than four or five people, usually including unrelated young people working as servants. And perhaps most surprising of all, multigenerational households were not very common. Pulling together much fascinating information about the family in the preindustrial Western world, Beatrice Gottlieb presents every aspect of this rich subject with clarity and fairness. Her generously illustrated book deals with the households of the wealthy and the poor, courtship and marriage, the care and training of children, and the bonds (and strains) of kinship. The matter of inheritance receives special attention, as it played a substantial role in a world permeated by rank and status, and its importance gave the family a peculiar social and economic significance. With a focus on the ordinary people whose everyday lives strike a responsive chord in all of us, as well as brief appearances by famous people and important events in history--Henry VIII's divorce, Benjamin Franklin's apprenticeship to his brother, and Mary Wollstonecraft's death in childbirth--this remarkable, eminently readable work brings to vivid life the wives and husbands, servants and masters, children and parents of a not too distant past.
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(A well researched and readable study of the family in the...)
A well researched and readable study of the family in the Western world. A storehouse of fascinating information presented in such a way as to be of great interest to scholar and layperson alike. Gottlieb has distilled an immense body of research into an eminently readable and intriguing narrative.
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Gottlieb, Beatrice was born on June 6, 1925 in New York City. Daughter of Joseph and Anna (Slud) Gottlieb.
Bachelor, Cornell University, 1945. Master of Arts, Cornell University, 1948. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1968.
Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1974.
Copy chief, Time Inc. (Sports Illustrated), New York City, 1954-1967; assistant professor of history, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1976-1977.
(During the last few decades the study of the family has f...)
(A well researched and readable study of the family in the...)
Member American History Association, Coordinating Council of Women in History, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Society for Study of Women in the Renaissance.