| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.5

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Pavla Miller. Transformations of Patriarchy in the West, 1500–1900. (Interdisciplinary Studies in History.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1998. Pp. xviii, 397. $35.00.

A book with this title represents an ambitious project, and Pavla Miller has acquitted herself well in the undertaking. Eschewing a philosophical discussion of changing theories and concepts of patriarchy, Miller has sketched a bold picture of the shift from a premodern patriarchalist social order to a more fraternal, modern social-political organization depending on mass education to preserve social order and facilitate state governance. This book contributes less to the study of patriarchy and more to the role of education in establishing modern Western societies. Relying on English-language secondary works, Miller concentrates her analysis on studies of Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, and the United States, showing diversity and differential developments across geography and chronology. It is unsurprising that gender and class emerge as the fundamental categories of analysis in this account of changing patriarchal forms of governance, but Miller also pays special attention to age and generational differences. . . .

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