The Household and the Making of History

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:Mary S. Hartman

页数:310

出版时间:2004-04-12

价格:USD 24.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780521536691

图书标签:社会史社会欧洲家庭

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.