Ancient society, or, Researches in the lines of human progress from savagery through barbarism to civilization / by Lewis H. Morgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881, author.

Contributor:

Henry Holt and Company, publisher.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Primitive societies.

Civilization.

Sociology.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (autograph, December, 1973) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 560 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Researches in the lines of human progress from savagery through barbarism to civilization

Place of Publication:

New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1907, 1877.

Contents:

Growth of intelligence through inventions and discoveries. Ethnical periods ; Arts of subsistence ; Ratio of human progress

Growth of the idea of government. Organization of society upon the basis of sex ; The Iroquois gens ; The Iroquois phratry ; The Iroquois tribe ; The Iroquois confederacy ; Gentes in other tribes of the Ganowanian family The Aztec confederacy ; The Grecian gens ; The Grecian phratry, tribe and nation ; The institution of Grecian political society ; The Roman gens ; The Roman curia, tribe and populus ; The institution of Roman political society ; Change of descent from the female to the male line ; Gentes in other tribes of the human family

Growth of the idea of the family. The ancient family ; The Consanguine family ; The Punaluan family ; The Syndyasmian and the Patriarchal families ; The Monogamian family ; Sequence of institutions connected with the family

Growth of the idea of property. The three rules of inheritance ; The three rules of inheritance-continued.

Notes:

Originally published 1877.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

Adams Collection copy has brochure (8 pages) of new Henry Holt releases laid in. Also on inside front cover bookseller's sticker: International Book Store. A Wasserman. 45 Clinton St. New York.

OCLC:

3220711