; Translated by Sarah Hanbury Tenison, Rosemary Morris, Andrew Wilson
Cambridge
: Polity Press
, 1996.
2 v.
: ill
, 25 cm.
This two-volume set provides a history of the family, from prehistory to the present, offering an analysis of changing forms of kinship and family life. The time-span and geographical difference covers from Egypt and the Pharaohs to contemporary Europe, from ancient China to post-colonial Africa