As I understand from listening to a conversation about it, the book The Ancient City describes moves by the ancient Roman city against the paterfamilias: the head of the family and his authority over his home. But I am not going to try to tackle the ancient world and will instead focus on the modern state and its war on, not just the family, but all forms of proper authority.
Have you read Rothbard's The Progressive Era? I have it but haven't cracked it open. His lectures on the economic history of the United States from the Civil War to World War One get into the personal relationships between a lot of the big players and how that impacted policy, something one should obviously look at but that today would be called a conspiracy theory.
Have you read Rothbard's The Progressive Era? I have it but haven't cracked it open. His lectures on the economic history of the United States from the Civil War to World War One get into the personal relationships between a lot of the big players and how that impacted policy, something one should obviously look at but that today would be called a conspiracy theory.