Mary Jo Maynes is professor of history at the University of Minnesota. Her recent books include Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History (2008) and Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History (2004). Ann Waltner is professor of history and director of the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota. She is a former editor of the Journal of Asian Studies and author of Getting an Heir: Adoption and the Construction of Kinship in Late Imperial China.
* Editors' Preface
* Introduction
* Chapter 1: Domestic Life and Human Origins
* Chapter 2: The Birth of the Gods: Family in the Emergence of
Religions and Cosmologies
* Chapter 3: Ruling Families: Kinship at the Dawn of Politics (3000 BCE
to 1450 CE)
* Chapter 4: Family Dynamics in a Global Frame (1400-1750)
* Chapter 5: Families in Global Markets (1600-1850)
* Chapter 6: Families in Revolutionary Times (1750-1920)
* Chapter 7: Powers of Life and Death: Families in the Era of State
Population Management (1880 to the Present)
* Epilogue: The Future of the Family
* Chronology
* Notes
* Further Reading
* Websites
* Index
