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The History of the Family concerns the changing interactions between family and social, political and religious structures over the last thousand years of European history. The family is usually described in terms of patterns of kinship, inheritance, and relations between sexes and generations.

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The meaning of family; the role of the ancestors; the politics of family; the arranged marriage; the nature of passion; the economics of the household; the rise of domesticity.

The History of the Family

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 29 September 1989
      ISBN-13 9780631146698
      978-0631146698
      ISBN-10 0631146695
      Also in:
      Anthropology Social, group or collective psychology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The History of the Family concerns the changing interactions between family and social, political and religious structures over the last thousand years of European history. The family is usually described in terms of patterns of kinship, inheritance, and relations between sexes and generations.

      Table of Contents
      The meaning of family; the role of the ancestors; the politics of family; the arranged marriage; the nature of passion; the economics of the household; the rise of domesticity.

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