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The Household and the Making of History: A Subversive View of the Western Past - Softcover

Hartman, Mary S.

 
9780521536691: The Household and the Making of History: A Subversive View of the Western Past
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521536693 ISBN 13: 9780521536691
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

This book discusses the development of marriage and household systems in Western Europe.

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Review

'This is a really exciting book, taking a bold stance about the nature of gender relations in Western society, and about the role gender relations played in a larger history. It's a big picture effort, by an imaginative scholar working from one of the key findings in comparative family history. It will cause debate, stimulate further reassessment - in general, do what an ambitious historical synthesis should do.' Peter Stearns, George Mason University

'... a brilliant if sometimes, at least in later chapters, contentious study ...'. BBC History Magazine

Book Description

Unlike most historical accounts of modern Western societies, which identify the change that truly matters as occurring in institutions beyond households, this one contends that the major changes identified with Western societies are owing to a unique marriage and household system that appeared in Western Europe during the Middle Ages.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521536693
ISBN 13 
9780521536691
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
310