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The family : a world history /

Maynes, Mary Jo.

The family : a world history / by Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012. - xi, 147 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - New Oxford world history .

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

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).

9780195338140 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780195304763 (hbk. : alk. paper)

2011046814


Families--History.

HQ503 / .M327 2012

306.85

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