The European Family
Making of Europe
1. Auflage November 1999
220 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-20156-4
John Wiley & Sons
This is a concise, yet wide-ranging, history of the family in Europe from antiquity to the present day.
Series Editors Preface.
Preface.
1. The Beginnings.
2. The Heritage of Greece and Rome.
3. The Coming of Christianity.
4. The German Lands.
5. The European Patterns and Medieval Regimes.
6. Women, Children and Fathers in the Reformation and
Counter-Reformation.
7. Dowry and the Rights of Women.
8. The Differences.
9. Proto and Full Industrialization.
10. Modernization and the Family: The Theories.
11. The Contemporary Family in Practice.
Notes.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Selected Reading.
Index.
Preface.
1. The Beginnings.
2. The Heritage of Greece and Rome.
3. The Coming of Christianity.
4. The German Lands.
5. The European Patterns and Medieval Regimes.
6. Women, Children and Fathers in the Reformation and
Counter-Reformation.
7. Dowry and the Rights of Women.
8. The Differences.
9. Proto and Full Industrialization.
10. Modernization and the Family: The Theories.
11. The Contemporary Family in Practice.
Notes.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Selected Reading.
Index.
"Goody's writing is always focused, concise to the point of
economy, and never driven by a particular ideology or by political
correctness. This is a book that stimulates the reader to take a
long view of the family and one that counsels wisely against making
generalisations and jumping to simple conclusions about the past."
The Times Higher Education Supplement
"Jack Goody has a well-deserved reputation for pithy analysis
and breathtaking international comparisons ... The book is filled
with seasoned insights and shrewd observations." Population and
Development Review
"Highly recommended for those who seek a broad, if polemical,
history of the family." CHOICE
economy, and never driven by a particular ideology or by political
correctness. This is a book that stimulates the reader to take a
long view of the family and one that counsels wisely against making
generalisations and jumping to simple conclusions about the past."
The Times Higher Education Supplement
"Jack Goody has a well-deserved reputation for pithy analysis
and breathtaking international comparisons ... The book is filled
with seasoned insights and shrewd observations." Population and
Development Review
"Highly recommended for those who seek a broad, if polemical,
history of the family." CHOICE
Jack Goody is a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge from 1973 to 1985. He has written extensively on the family, memory, ritual, and literacy, in a wide variety of regional and historical contexts. His many books include Death, Property and the Ancestors (1962), The Domestication of the Savage Mind (1977), The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe (1983), The East and West (1996), Representations and Contradictions (Blackwell, 1997) and Food and Love (1999).
