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FAMILY CYCLES: Strength, Decline and Renewal in American Domestic Life, 1630–2000 by Allan C. Carlson Transaction, Piscatawy, New Jersey Paperback: 182 pages Price: AUD$58.95 Reviewed by Peter Westmore Allan Carlson, arguably the United States’ foremost historian and sociologist of the family, wrote this important book to document historical cycles of strength and weakness in the…