A History of the Family Vol. 2 : The Impact of Modernity
Segalen, Martine (editor); Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane (editor); Burguiere, Andre (editor); Zonabend, Francoise (editor)
Language: English
Published by Harvard University Press - Belknap Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 1996
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585 pages index, glossary and bibliography. First Harvard University Press Edition.Dust jacket 39.95 is unclipped. Introduction by Jack Goody. Translated from the French by Sarah Hanbury Tenison. Contents in Three Parts: Europe and the First Modernity, Other Worlds and The Western World Industrialization and Urbanization. An anthology with two selections in the first part and six selections in Parts Two and Three. A monumental work in two volumes (THIS IS VOLUME 2 ONLY} that brings together experts from every discipline to show what the study of each epoch has to tell us about the family, and conversely what the study of the family can reveal about times past and present. Why is the family universal and yet so different in its various cultural manifestations? What notion of kinships regulate it, and how do these develop and change? These essays trace family history from pre-history, to antiquity to the middle ages, from the evolution of family from primate behavior to codified practices in Sumere, Babylon, ancient Rome, feudal Europe, medieval Byzantium, China, Japan and Arab Islam.…
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- Title
- A History of the Family Vol. 2 : The Impact of Modernity
- Author
- Segalen, Martine (editor); Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane (editor); Burguiere, Andre (editor); Zonabend, Francoise (editor)
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press - Belknap Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hard Back
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0674396766
- ISBN 13
- 9780674396760
- Edition
- First Edition Stated
- Dimensions
- 6" x 9"
The shock of modernity shapes the story in Volume II, as the authors explore the impact of the industrial revolution, socialism, and contemporary practices from birth control to the widespread employment of women on the forms and norms of the family. This volume ranges from the changing influence of church and state on marriage and inheritance in early modern Europe to the demographic catastrophe wrought by the Spanish conquest in Mesoamerica; from the redefinition of family during the Chinese Revolution to the organization of nation and business along family lines in Japan since the Meiji Restoration; from the effects of British colonial policy and nationalistic reform on the family in India to the interplay of urbanization and the spread of Islam in new family codes in black Africa. The result is a complex, encyclopedic picture of the family confronting vast changes in politics, economics, and technology, adapting freely or perforce and yet fiercely maintaining the diversity that has marked it from the beginning of time.
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