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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Maynes, Mary Jo
Otros Autores: Waltner, Ann Beth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
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).