Michael Drake is Emeritus Professor in the Social Sciences at The Open University, and Visiting Professor of History at the University of Tromsø, Norway.

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• Contributors. Acknowledgements.Introduction.Part I: Approaches to the History of Family or Community:.Recent Research on the History of the Family: Tamara K. Hareven.Biography, Family History and the Analysis of Social Change: Brian Elliott.Part II: The Family, Past and Present:.What is New About the Modern Family?: Michael Anderson.Do Families Support Each Other More or Less Than in the Past?: Janet Finch.Theories of Family Development and the Experience of Being Brought Up: Lynn Jamieson.Women and the Domestic Economy, 1890-1970: The Oral Evidence: Elizabeth Roberts.Part III: Migration and Movement:.E. G. Ravenstein and the 'Laws of Migration' : D. B. Grigg.Historians and Immigration: Colin Holmes.Migration and the Social History of Modern Europe: James H. Jackson, Jr and Leslie Page Moch.Part IV: A Sense of Community:.'Community' and the Social Geography of Victorian Cities: Richard Dennis and Stephen Daniels.Natives and Incomers: The Symbolism of Belonging in Muker Parish, North Yorkshire: Scott K. Phillips.Avoiding the Ghetto: Pakistani Migrants and Settlement Shifts in Manchester: Phina Werbner.Community and Nation in the Past: Perception and Reality: Dennis Mills.Glossary.Recommended Reading List.Index.