(Hardback)

Readers seeking a historical and cross-cultural treatment of marriage and the family will not be disappointed by this book. After going back to the earliest generations of human life to seek the roots of why and how human beings came to marry, it explores the various points in family life at which marriages are made, dissolved, and remade.

(Hardback)

This volume will be of interest to those concerned with family studies and family history, global environmental history, and the history of disease, as well as those concerned with demographic history.