The family
Subtitle: a world history
By: by Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner
Contributors: Waltner, Ann Beth
Series: New Oxford world history
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9780195338140; 9780195304763
Subjects: Families; History
Description: Examines the ways in which differences in gender and generation have affected family relations since 10,000 BCE.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Domestic life and human origins (to 5000 BCE); title: The birth of the gods: family in the emergence of religions and cosmologies; title: Ruling families: kinship at the dawn of politics (ca. 3000 BCE to 1450 CE); title: Family dynamics in a global frame (1400-1750); title: Families in global markets (1600-1850); title: Families in revolutionary times (1750-1920); title: Powers of life and death: families in the era of state population management (1880 to the present).