The World We Have Lost
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The World We Have Lost
| Author | Peter Laslett |
|---|---|
| Published | 1965 |
| Pages | 325 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Laslett reconstructs pre-industrial England from parish registers and household listings, and takes apart the assumption that people before industrialisation lived in large extended families. A founding work of historical demography — history rebuilt from records of ordinary households rather than the state’s archive. |
Where I heard about it
- A reply to @typesfast — in the thread under his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” (June 2025). The full set of replies is on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Economic History — the field this helped start.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.