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The Family - A World History (Hardcover, New)
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The Family - A World History (Hardcover, New)
Series: New Oxford World History
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This book addresses the question of what world history looks like
when the family is at the center of the story. People have always
lived in families, but what that means has varied dramatically over
time and across cultures. The family is not a "natural"
phenomenon-it has a history. And family life is not limited to the
realm of the private or the strictly personal; the family is a
force of history. Gender and generational differences affect how
individual family members relate to each other and how the family
operates in changing historical times. For example, youth rebellion
against repressive elders fed into choices about conversion to
Christianity in colonial Kenya in the early twentieth century and
also into the May Fourth rebellion against traditional rule in
China in 1919.These are the sorts of examples that drive the
narrative of The Family: A World History. Maynes and Waltner begin
their story more than 10,000 years ago with various projects of
domestication around the globe - different ways of inventing human
settlement and explaining and attempting to control the natural
world. The authors then examine how family systems and family
practices help to account for the historical fate of different
world regions in the era of growing world trade, colonization, and
religious warfare and conversions between 1450 and 1750. They make
connections between economic, political, and cultural modernity and
the transformation of family and gender relationships between 1750
and 1920. Finally, they demonstrate that the struggle over family
relations was central to fascist and colonial regimes, Cold War era
ideological and economic confrontations, and post-World-War II
antagonisms between 'developed' and 'underdeveloped' nations, and,
more recently, between the global North and the global South. The
narrative concludes with such contemporary realities as
transcontinental family life, state programs of genocide, and
innovative reproductive technologies. Taking a long and broad view
of the family as a force of history brings to light processes of
human development and patterns of social life that are missed by
narrower investigations. This book on the family is thus also
engaged in a larger conversation about what it means to be human,
and how a very expansive temporal and geographic frame of history
brings new insights into the human past and present. Maynes and
Waltner draw on a wide range of historical sources including legal
codes, census records, memoirs, art, and oral history.
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