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The Origin of the family, private property, and the state / Frederick Engels.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--History.
- Families.
- State, The.
- Property--History.
- Property.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Electric Book Co., c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- One of Engels' most important works. It is based on a detailed synopsis made by Marx in 1880-81 of the work of the American anthropologist, Lewis H. Morgan.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Preface to the First 1884 German Edition
- Preface to the Fourth 1891 German Edition
- I. Prehistoric Stages of Culture
- 1. Savagery
- 2. Barbarism
- II. The Family
- III. The Iroquois Gens
- IV. The Grecian Gens
- V. The Emergence of the Athenian State
- VI. The Gens and the State in Rome
- VII. The Gens among the Celts and Germans
- VIII. The Formation of the State among the Germans
- IX. Barbarism and Civilisation.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 1-281-24090-7
- 1-4619-1149-4
- 9786611240905
- OCLC:
- 614505967
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