The family : a world history / Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maynes, Mary Jo
Other Authors: Waltner, Ann Beth
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Series:New Oxford world history.
Subjects:
Table of 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)