The family : a world history /
by Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
- xi, 147 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- New Oxford world history .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-135) 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).