The family : a world history / by Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner.
- Maynes, Mary Jo.
- Date:
- [2012], ©2012
- Books
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Examines the ways in which differences in gender and generation have affected family relations since 10,000 BCE.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2012], ©2012.
Physical description
xi, 147 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-135) and index.
Contents
Domestic life and human origins (to 5000 BCE) -- The birth of the gods: family in the emergence of religions (to 1000 CE) -- Ruling families: kinship at the dawn of politics (ca. 3000 BCE to 1450 CE) -- Early modern families (1400-1750) -- Families in global markets (1600-1850) -- Families in revolutionary times (1750-1920) -- Powers of life and death: families in the era of state population management (1880 to the present).
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- 9780195338140
- 0195338146
- 9780195304763
- 0195304764