Research Catalog

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Description

1. xviii, 397 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "This wide-ranging study of familial, political, and economic change in the West between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries is organized around two themes: the rise and fall of a patriarchalist social order and its replacement by fraternal forms of governance; and the attempts by various reformers to instill self-mastery, originally expected of monks and masters, into subject populations, and the frequently unforeseen effects of this process. By linking schooling, state-building, and transformations of patriarchal forms of governance, the book also reopens the debate about the social forces that produced state school systems and about the ways schools affected people and institutions." "Clear and accessible throughout, the book will be of interest to scholars and students in history, sociology, education, women's and gender studies, and cultural studies."--Jacket.

Series statement

1. Interdisciplinary studies in history

Uniform title

1. Interdisciplinary studies in history

Subject

1. Historical sociology
2. Patriarchy
3. Social institutions
4. Social control > History
5. historical sociology
6. social institutions
7. Historical sociology
8. Patriarchy
9. Social control
10. Social institutions
11. Patriarchalismus
12. Zivilisationsprozess
13. Demokratisierung
14. Chancengleichheit
15. Gesellschaftsleben
16. Patriarchaat (sociologie)
17. Westliche Welt

Genre/Form

1. History

Contents

1. The consolidation of patriarchalism in early modern Europe -- Patriarchalism challenged -- Revolutions -- State formation, personality structure, and the civilizing process -- Worlds of social control: civilizing the masterless poor -- Assembling school systems -- Social movements, individual agency, and the school -- The reconstrucion of private life.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.