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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462818103321

Autore

Maynes Mary Jo

Titolo

The family [[electronic resource] ] : a world history / / Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-84834-1

0-19-971370-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 p.)

Collana

New Oxford world history

Altri autori (Persone)

WaltnerAnn Beth

Disciplina

306.85

Soggetti

Families - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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).

Sommario/riassunto

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 fundamental unit from the beginnings of domestication and human settlement. They consider the codification of rules governing marriage in societies around the ancient world, the changing conceptions of family wrought by the heightened pace of colonialism and globalization in the modern world, and how state polici