affectionate. Children were now treated with permissiveness (Stone 149). Therefore, the changes within the family were inextricably interwoven with the evolution of the social attitudes.
However, this brief description of Stone's themes fails to do justice to the depth and thoroughness of his work. Stone plunges the reader into a different society and challenges the reader to suspend his judgment about a world that is radically different from the contemporary society. Apart from providing mere statistics about the 1500-1800 period, Stone also enlivens his text with personal accounts of a variety of perso
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