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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State is a critical examination of the historical development of human society, rooted in the materialist conception of history. Friedrich Engels analyzes the evolution of social structures, tracing the transformation of kinship systems, economic arrangements, and political institutions from primitive communal societies to class-based civilizations. Through this framework, Engels argues that private...

This work traces the treatment of the family in the philosophies of leading political thinkers of the modern world. What is family? What is marriage? In an effort to address contemporary society's disputes over the meanings of these human social institutions, the author examines a roster of major and unexpected modern political philosophers fom Locke and Rousseau to Hegel and Marx to Freud and Beauvoir. He presents how these individuals developed...

After an incident at school, seventeen year-old Alaine is spending spring break in a "volunteer immersion project", toiling away under the ever-watchful eyes of Tati Estelle and her eagle-eyed mother at a new nonprofit in Haiti. Although it is meant as punishment, Alaine is still able to flirt with Tati's distractingly cute intern, get some actual face time with her mom and experience her family's history in Haiti for the first time.

This program depicts the lives and lifestyles of a typical lower-middle-class family in the mid-eighteenth century. Showing the struggle for survival and likely course of events that follow the death of the father in early middle age, we learn what such a family had in the way of possessions and how it valued them, and what their range of options was.

What would happen if you discovered that your family was one of the most powerful in human history? What if you were told that the source of the family's power was hidden around the world, in the form of 39 clues? What if you were given a choice - take a million dollars and walk away ... or get the first clue? If you're Amy and Dan Cahill, you take the clue - and begin a very dangerous race.

People have always lived in families, but what that means has varied dramatically across time and cultures. The family is not a "natural" phenomenon but an institution with a dynamic history stretching 10,000 years into the past. Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner tell the story of this fundamental unit from the beginnings of domestication and human settlement. They consider the codification of rules governing marriage in societies around the ancient...

Explores the social history of Europe and Colonial America from the onset of the Black Death to the beginning of the Industrial Age, shedding light on the similarities and differences between families of the past and those of today.