The family : a world history /
People have always lived in families, but what that means has varied dramatically across time and cultures. The family is not a "natural" phenomenon but an institution with a dynamic history stretching 10,000 years into the past. Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner tell the story of this fundam...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2012.
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Colección: | New Oxford world history.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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).