Dynasties past and present -- Shaping the family -- Paterfamilias: it's hard to be the boss -- Women and dynastic power -- Embedding the family -- Persistence and change -- The dynastic impulse in the modern world
Summary
Combining history and anthropology in a global examination of families and power, this work connects medieval kings and queens to contemporary family business empires. Its sweeping overview of five millennia of rulership uncovers recurring predicaments of bloodline succession, and sheds light on divergence and change in dynastic practice
Notes
Also issued in print: 2019
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 10, 2019)
