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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Tucker, William, 1942- author.     Subjects     Marriage -- Philosophy.     Marriage -- Social aspects.     Civilization -- Philosophy.     Civilization, Modern.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Tucker, William, 1942- author.       by title:      Marriage and civiliz...         MARC Display

Marriage and civilization [electronic resource] : how monogamy made us human / William Tucker. by Tucker, William, 1942- author. Washington, DC : Regnery Publishing, Inc., c2014. Subjects Marriage -- Philosophy.   Marriage -- Social aspects.   Civilization -- Philosophy.   Civilization, Modern. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=E642FE91-6F0A-492E-9D8E-8642612825BA This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1486-1/{E642FE91-6F0A-492E-9D8E-8642612825BA}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781621572190 (electronic bk.) 1621572196 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource Contents:  Where did the family come from? -- The primate inheritance -- Chimp sexual communism -- The alpha couple and the primal horde -- Why we didn't remain chimpanzees -- Hunger-gatherer monogamy -- The end of hunter-gatherer monogamy -- Herding and horticulture : the two roads to polygamy -- Marriage and the dawn of civilization -- Egyptian and Hebrew beginnings -- The Illiad and The Odyssey -- Greece and the birth of monogamous society -- The rape of Lucretia and the founding of Rome -- Christianity, Droit de Seigneur, and the virtuous woman -- The French revolution and the end of aristorcracy -- The Victorian era and teh triumph of marriage -- Mormonism : a nineteenth-century dissent from monogamy -- Nomadic warriors and Islam -- Marriage in India -- Marriage in China -- The black family and the emergence of single motherhood -- What is happening to the family today? -- What do women want? -- What marriage means for civilization. Requests:  0 Summary:  Monogamous marriage built civilization; will its collapse destroy it? Documents the historical and anthropological story behind how monogamous, lifelong partnerships are the driving force behind the creation and rise of civilization.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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