Family History (Volumes 1-3) -- Academic Frontiers

Author: (French) Anne Burguière (Burguière, A.) et al. (editors), translated by Yuan Shuren et al.
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Features: Twenty-nine authors with specialized expertise participated in writing the two volumes of the work. They interact with each other, aiming to outline the rough contours of various family forms and the evolution of family norms, combining continuity and discontinuity. They also hope to compare some cultural choices and different historical processes, and the conclusions drawn are presented as follows:
Volume I discusses ancient societies, unenlightened Europe, medieval Europe, and the classical stage of non-European civilizations. This volume is characterized by its origin nature, covering a long time span.
Volume II discusses the impact of modernization—religiously, politically, economically, or socially—as well as comparisons with the dominant European model.