02734nam 2200589 a 450 991046281810332120200520144314.01-283-84834-10-19-971370-7(CKB)2670000000310191(EBL)1591337(SSID)ssj0000783855(PQKBManifestationID)12260997(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000783855(PQKBWorkID)10760736(PQKB)11282092(MiAaPQ)EBC1591337(Au-PeEL)EBL1591337(CaPaEBR)ebr10629507(CaONFJC)MIL416084(OCoLC)823283442(EXLCZ)99267000000031019120111116d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe family[electronic resource] a world history /Mary Jo Maynes and Ann WaltnerOxford ;New York Oxford University Pressc20121 online resource (164 p.)New Oxford world historyDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-530476-4 0-19-533814-6 Includes bibliographical references 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).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 policiNew Oxford World HistoryFamiliesHistoryElectronic books.FamiliesHistory.306.85Maynes Mary Jo887293Waltner Ann Beth917697MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462818103321The family2057669UNINA