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

by Mary S. Hartman

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Contrary to previously-held views, this book argues that a unique late marriage pattern explains the continuing puzzle of why Western Europe was the site of changes that gave birth to the modern world. It contends that the roots of modern development... Read more
Contrary to previously-held views, this book argues that a unique late marriage pattern explains the continuing puzzle of why Western Europe was the site of changes that gave birth to the modern world. It contends that the roots of modern developments are located in history more than a millennium earlier, when the peasants in northwestern Europe began to marry their daughters almost as late as their sons. This phenomenon affords a more understandable account of items long considered as peculiar Western achievements, including the industrial revolution and mass democratic political movements. Less

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File size8.9x6.02x0.85inches
Print pages297
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date May 1, 2004
ISBN9780521536691
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