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The History of the Family

James Casey (Author)

9780631146698, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 29 September 1989

220 pages
21.5 x 14.1 x 1.8 cm, 0.312 kg

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. The author examines the contemporary use of these terms and their evolution from nineteenth-century anthropology and social thought. He then considers how these concepts apply to and reveal the nature of European and other societies.

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

Subject Areas: History [HB]

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