Peter Laslett
Biographic Data
| ID | 177220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Laslett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Laslett |
| SIGNATURE | LASLETT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 96 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 769 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 93 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1948 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Aging in the Past
Vejez
Debating Deliberative Democracy
Interconnections over Time
The term 'generation' in everyday language is unsuitable for the analysis of temporal connections from a sociological perspective. Understanding these generational linkages, their strength, content and quality, their variability by class, sex, locality, culture, stages in the life course, education, material position and liability to modification by political action, is a fundamental requirement for the analysis of individual behaviour, and is a …
Political Philosophy
This article reports on a conversation convened by Quentin Skinner at the invitation of the Editors of The Journal of Political Philosophy and held in Cambridge on 13 February 2001
Locke
We know more about the development of John Locke's ideas than we do about almost any other philosopher's before modern times. This book brings together a comprehensive collection of the writings on politics and society that stand outside the canonical works which Locke published during his lifetime. In the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 the three works by which he is chiefly known appeared: the Two Treatises of Government, An Essay Concernin…
Ageing and Social Policy
Aging in the past
This book is a product of a conference on the historical demography of aging held at Bowdoin College Breckenridge Public Affairs Center in York Maine in the spring of 1990. Our interest was in the interaction between demographic events and processes on the one hand and both societal age norms and individual-level behavior involving older people on the other. While the emphasis was on demographic forces these were examined in interaction with othe…
A fresh map of life
A Fresh Map of Life
The Third Age, The Fourth Age and The Future
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Philosophy, Politics, and Society
From Provinces into Nations
A fresh map of life
PETER LASLETT A fresh map of life : the emergence of the third age. Presentation of the book and interview with the author
Family, Political Economy, and Demographic Change
Growing Old in the Twentieth Century
Family, kinship and collectivity as systems of support in pre-industrial Europe
La vie dans les maisons à famille simple (familles nucléaires) prive beaucoup d'individus de support familial. L'hypothese de la privation nucléaire affirme que plus il existe de maisons à famille simple dans une société, plus ces individus auront besoin du support de la collectivité, c'est-à-dire les organisations de charité telles que l'Eglise, les municipalités et l'Etat. On a particulièrement pris en considération le support provenant des mem…
La parenté en chiffres
Parler de parenté en sociologie historique est un lieu commun. On sait maintenant que l'on ne peut comprendre une société à moins de connaître son système de parenté, à la fois dimension de sa structure et élément essentiel à sa solidarité. Toute réduction de la quantité ou de l'efficacité des liens de parenté, ou des deux à la fois, affecte la solidarité sociale ou change son caractère. Dans les situations les plus souvent étudiées, ce résultat …
John Locke Two Treatises of Government
This is the revised version of Peter Laslett's acclaimed edition of Two Treatises of Government, which is widely recognised as one of the classic pieces of recent scholarship in the history of ideas, read and used by students of political theory throughout the world. This 1988 edition revises Dr Laslett's second edition (1970) and includes an updated bibliography, a guide to further reading and a fully reset and revised introduction which surveys…
The Emergence of the Third Age
This article is based upon a chapter in a book to be called Britain! Be Your Age! It begins with a discussion of schemes for dividing the life-course, describes the fresh division to which the title the Third Age belongs and refers briefly to a general theory of the Third Age. It is claimed that the Third Age as thus defined did not emerge in Britain and other Western countries until the 1950s, nor did it become a settled feature of their social …
The Medieval Ages of Man
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The Character of Familial History, Its Limitations and the Conditions for Its Proper Pursuit
This is a deliberately controversial piece, deriving the duties of the historian of the family from the ethical philosophy of Immanuel Kant. It criticizes the following tendencies in the treatment of the subject: the tendency to read history backwards (the Whig interpretation of history), to see it in terms of the doctrine of modernization (disastrous for the history of the family), to fail to recognize that familial change goes forward at the pa…
Gregory King, Robert Malthus and the Origins of English Social Realism
In this article I compare King and Malthus in respect of their ability to penetrate what is here called social opacity, the resistance of all social structures to objective analysis by contemporaries, demographic and other forms of analysis. It accords to King the distinction to have been the first person ever to have recognized the issue, to have set out to penetrate social opacity as it was in his generation, and thus to have been the first to …
The British Fertility Decline
The Significance of the Past in the Study of Ageing
‘These days no-one bothers with old people, not even their children or their relatives.’ This familiar falsehood is important to us here because of its initial phrase, two words which are very often met with in familiar conversation and which imply comparison with the past. The statement is false both because research on the family relationships of the elderly shows it to be so today, and because historical work fails to show that familial suppor…
John Locke Two Treatises of Government
This is the revised version of Peter Laslett's acclaimed edition of Two Treatises of Government, which is widely recognised as one of the classic pieces of recent scholarship in the history of ideas, read and used by students of political theory throughout the world. This 1988 edition revises Dr Laslett's second edition (1970) and includes an updated bibliography, a guide to further reading and a fully reset and revised introduction which surveys…
Comparing Household Structure Over Time and Between Cultures
Because of the importance of the family and household in all societies and at all historical periods, it is essential to be able to make comparisons between varieties of domestic groups. If we wish to comment on the extent to which the household is affected by social change and especially by the process of modernization, industrialization, social mobilization, or whatever that vague but ubiquitous phenomenon is called, it must be clear what would…
Philosophy Politics and Society
Size and structure of the household in England over three centuries
Data giving sizes and structures of households have been rare for any country before the institution of the official census, and have to be gleaned from surviving documents containing listings of inhabitants. This article, the first of two, describes the collection of listings of inhabitants of English communities which is being assembled by the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure and the methods by which the hundre…
The Emergence of the Third Age
This article is based upon a chapter in a book to be called Britain! Be Your Age! It begins with a discussion of schemes for dividing the life-course, describes the fresh division to which the title the Third Age belongs and refers briefly to a general theory of the Third Age. It is claimed that the Third Age as thus defined did not emerge in Britain and other Western countries until the 1950s, nor did it become a settled feature of their social …
Aging in the Past
The Use and Misuse of Census Data for the Historical Analysis of Family Structure
Lutz K. Berkner, The Use and Misuse of Census Data for the Historical Analysis of Family Structure, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 5, No. 4, The History of the Family, II (Spring, 1975), pp. 721-738
Family, kinship and collectivity as systems of support in pre-industrial Europe
La vie dans les maisons à famille simple (familles nucléaires) prive beaucoup d'individus de support familial. L'hypothese de la privation nucléaire affirme que plus il existe de maisons à famille simple dans une société, plus ces individus auront besoin du support de la collectivité, c'est-à-dire les organisations de charité telles que l'Eglise, les municipalités et l'Etat. On a particulièrement pris en considération le support provenant des mem…
Characteristics of the Western Family Considered Over Time
Philosophy, Politics and Society
The Character of Familial History, Its Limitations and the Conditions for Its Proper Pursuit
This is a deliberately controversial piece, deriving the duties of the historian of the family from the ethical philosophy of Immanuel Kant. It criticizes the following tendencies in the treatment of the subject: the tendency to read history backwards (the Whig interpretation of history), to see it in terms of the doctrine of modernization (disastrous for the history of the family), to fail to recognize that familial change goes forward at the pa…
An Introduction to English Historical Demography, From the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Market Society and Political Theory
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Household and Family in past Time. Comparative Studies in the Size and Structure of the Domestic Group over the Last Three Centuries in England, France, Serbia, Japan and Colonial North America, with …
1. Introduction: The history of the family Peter Laslett 2. Some demographic determinants of average household size: An analytic approach Thomas K. Burch 3. The evolution of the family Jack Goody 4. Mean household size in England since the sixteenth century Peter Laslett 5. Mean household size in England from printed sources Richard Wall 6. A note on the household structure of mid-nineteenth-century York in comparative perspective W. A. Armstrong…
The Wrong Way Through the Telescope
When William Shakespeare looked out upon his social world in the I590S or the I600S he perceived an enormous and immensely varied social landscape. His viewing instrument, his telescope to be more exactly metaphorical, gave him great perceptive depth. But we cannot get at the eyepiece Shakespeare used; we have, so to speak, to look through the orifice instead. What we perceive is not what Shakespeare saw, but Shakespeare's eye. Or rather that whi…
La famille et le ménage
Le présent article est un extrait de l'Introduction à l'ouvrage intitulé : Household and Family in Past Time, Comparative Studies in the Size and Structure of the Domestic group over the last three Centuries in England, France, Serbia, Japan and Colonial North America, with further Materials from Western Europe. Ce livre, en cours de publication à Cambridge (University Press, fin 1972) contient l'essentiel des communications entendues en septembr…
Family Life and Illicit Love in Earlier Generations. Essays in Historical Sociology
This is a book about the history of family life in several senses. The author puts forward a thesis about the European family in relation to the conspicuous differences between European economic and social development and that of the rest of the world. He discusses the numbers and functions of servants, the numbers and situation of orphans and the aged, and the difficult question of whether American slaves lived in families at all. There is an ex…
The Comparative History of Household and Family
Journal Article The Comparative History of Household and Family Get access Peter Laslett Peter Laslett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 4, Issue 1, Fall 1970, Pages 75–87, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/4.1.75 Published: 01 October 1970
John Locke, the Great Recoinage, and the Origins of the Board of Trade
O N June 26, i696, there was held in a room in the rambling royal palace of Whitehall at Westminster, the first meeting of Majesty's Commissioners for promoting the Trade of this Kingdom, and for inspecting and improving His Plantations in America and elsewhere. We must imagine ten Stuart noblemen and gentlemen sitting in their silken knee breeches in front of pewter sandboxes and goose quill pens, listening to their commission being read. No dou…
Political Philosophy
This article reports on a conversation convened by Quentin Skinner at the invitation of the Editors of The Journal of Political Philosophy and held in Cambridge on 13 February 2001
The Significance of the Past in the Study of Ageing
‘These days no-one bothers with old people, not even their children or their relatives.’ This familiar falsehood is important to us here because of its initial phrase, two words which are very often met with in familiar conversation and which imply comparison with the past. The statement is false both because research on the family relationships of the elderly shows it to be so today, and because historical work fails to show that familial suppor…
The Third Age, The Fourth Age and The Future
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Age at Menarche in Europe since the Eighteenth Century
Elections and Electors. Studies in Democratic Representation
Journal Article Elections and Electors. Studies in democratic representation Get access Elections and Electors. Studies in democratic representation. By J . F. S. Ross. (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1955. Pp. 480. 42s.) Peter Laslett Peter Laslett Trinity College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 67, Issue 265, 1 March 1957, Pages 131–132, https://doi.org/10.2307/22276…
Interconnections over Time
The term 'generation' in everyday language is unsuitable for the analysis of temporal connections from a sociological perspective. Understanding these generational linkages, their strength, content and quality, their variability by class, sex, locality, culture, stages in the life course, education, material position and liability to modification by political action, is a fundamental requirement for the analysis of individual behaviour, and is a …
Sir Robert Filmer
IT IS OF the nature of political thinking that there should be almost no theorists of conservatism. Defenders of the status quo there always ,are, opposers of change, appealers to every sentiment of timidity, of prudence and of caution. But very rarely do we find systematizers of reaction, seldom makers of what is now and has been, familiar, loved and respected, into a series of intellectual propositions. It can only be for this reason that there…
Patriarcha
The Good Old Cause
Musicians in English Society from Elizabeth to Charles I
Philosophy Politics and Society
Philosophy, Politics and Society
Journal Article Philosophy, Politics and Society Get access Philosophy, Politics and Society. A Collection edited by Peter Laslett. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1956. Pp. xvi + 184. 18s.) David Thomson David Thomson Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 66, Issue 264, 1 December 1956, Pages 719–720, https://doi.org/10.2307/2227535 Published: 01 December …
Elections and Electors. Studies in Democratic Representation
Journal Article Elections and Electors. Studies in democratic representation Get access Elections and Electors. Studies in democratic representation. By J . F. S. Ross. (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1955. Pp. 480. 42s.) Peter Laslett Peter Laslett Trinity College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 67, Issue 265, 1 March 1957, Pages 131–132, https://doi.org/10.2307/22276…
John Locke, the Great Recoinage, and the Origins of the Board of Trade
O N June 26, i696, there was held in a room in the rambling royal palace of Whitehall at Westminster, the first meeting of Majesty's Commissioners for promoting the Trade of this Kingdom, and for inspecting and improving His Plantations in America and elsewhere. We must imagine ten Stuart noblemen and gentlemen sitting in their silken knee breeches in front of pewter sandboxes and goose quill pens, listening to their commission being read. No dou…
Philosophy, Politics and Society
Locke's Two Treatises of Government
Locke's Two Treatises of Government
Critical Studies Get access Locke’s Two Treatises of Government. Edited by P. Laslett. (London : C.U.P.. 1960. Pp. xiii + 521. Price 55s). La Politique morale de John Locke. By R. Polin. (Paris : Presses Universitaires de France. 1960. Pp. 320. Price 14 NF). J. Kemp J. Kemp University of St. Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 12, Issue 49, October 1962, Pages 356–36…
Puritan Village, the Formation of a New England Town
Philosophy, Politics and Society
Market Society and Political Theory
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Philosophy, Politics and Society (Second Series)
Book Reviews Get access Philosophy, Politics and Society (Second Series). Edited by Peter Laslett and W. G. Runciman. (Oxford : Blackwell. 1962. Pp. x + 229. Price 25s). M. Oakeshott M. Oakeshott Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 15, Issue 60, July 1965, Pages 281–282, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217620 Published: 01 July 1965
An Introduction to English Historical Demography, From the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Two Treatises of Government
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Two Treatises of Government. By John Locke. Edited by Peter Laslett. (New York & London: Mentor Books. 1965. Pp. 576. Price paper 7s 6d). Roland Hall Roland Hall Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 65, October 1966, Page 365, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218500 Published: 01 October 1966
The World We Have Lost
The World We Have Lost
The Library of John Locke
The university in high industrial society
Le brassage de la population en France et en Angleterre aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Comparaison préliminaire de villages français et anglais
Philosophy, Politics and Society
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Philosophy, Politics and Society : Third Series. Edited by Peter Laslett and W. G. Runciman. (Oxford : Basil Blackwell. 1967. Pp. vi + 232. Price 30s) D. D. Raphael D. D. Raphael Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 75, April 1969, Pages 185–186, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217707 Published: 01 April 1969
Size and structure of the household in England over three centuries
Data giving sizes and structures of households have been rare for any country before the institution of the official census, and have to be gleaned from surviving documents containing listings of inhabitants. This article, the first of two, describes the collection of listings of inhabitants of English communities which is being assembled by the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure and the methods by which the hundre…
The Comparative History of Household and Family
Journal Article The Comparative History of Household and Family Get access Peter Laslett Peter Laslett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 4, Issue 1, Fall 1970, Pages 75–87, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/4.1.75 Published: 01 October 1970
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