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

  • Maynes, Mary Jo.
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[2012], ©2012
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Description

Examines the ways in which differences in gender and generation have affected family relations since 10,000 BCE.

Publication/Creation

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2012], ©2012.

Physical description

xi, 147 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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Contents

Domestic life and human origins (to 5000 BCE) -- The birth of the gods: family in the emergence of religions (to 1000 CE) -- Ruling families: kinship at the dawn of politics (ca. 3000 BCE to 1450 CE) -- Early modern families (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).

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-135) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    UR.U
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  • 9780195338140
  • 0195338146
  • 9780195304763
  • 0195304764