A sweeping yet intimate history - from the Bronze Age to the modern day - exploring where our inherited ideas of fatherhood have come from, how the role has changed over the centuries, and what it now means to be a dad.An ambitious history of masculinity and family, from the Bronze Age to the contemporary 'crisis of men',Fatherhooddares to offer a more caring and affirmative vision of the roles men play at home and in the world.‘Superbly intelligent . . . a rewardingSapiens-style big history’-The Sunday Times‘A lightness of touch that recalls Bill Bryson or Craig Brown at their non-fiction best’-The ObserverWhat is fatherhood, and where did it come from? How has the role of men in families and society changed across thousands of years? What does the history of fatherhood reveal about what it means to be a dad today?From the anxious philosophers of ancient Athens and Henry VIII’s obsessive quest for an heir, to Charles Darwin’s theories of human origins, Bob Dylan’s take down of ‘The Ma
