Families of a New World
Subtitle: Gender, Politics, and State Development in a Global Context
Contributors: Lynne Haney (Editor)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 25, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415934466
First sentence: By the mid nineteenth century, a class of Egyptians (the effendiyya) trained to serve the state had come to see monogamy and nuclear families as the sine qua non of successful state rule.