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The family : a world history / Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maynes, Mary Jo.
- Series:
- New Oxford World History
- New Oxford world history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--History.
- Families.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (164 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- People have always lived in families, but what that means has varied dramatically across time and cultures. The family is not a ""natural"" phenomenon but an institution with a dynamic history stretching 10,000 years into the past. Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner tell the story of this fundamental unit from the beginnings of domestication and human settlement. They consider the codification of rules governing marriage in societies around the ancient world, the changing conceptions of family wrought by the heightened pace of colonialism and globalization in the modern world, and how state polici
- Contents:
- Domestic life and human origins (to 5000 BCE)
- The birth of the gods: family in the emergence of religions and cosmologies
- Ruling families: kinship at the dawn of politics (ca. 3000 BCE to 1450 CE)
- Family dynamics in a global frame (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).
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-992999-8
- 1-283-84834-1
- 0-19-971370-7
- OCLC:
- 823283442
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