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Recent Change and the Periodization of American Family History

University of Illinois. Chicago

Periodization is a major element in historical interpretation. The remarkable changes in the American family since World War II are reviewed in conjunction with three principal frameworks—dichotomous, secular trend, and episodic schemes—for organizing the dimension of time in the historiography of the family. How these recent episodes relate to longer-run frameworks is explored. Metaphors or models of change in family history need to be used more consciously and explicitly.

Journal of Family History, Vol. 20, No. 4, 329-346 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/036319909502000401


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