Families in the Expansion of Europe,1500-1800 (An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450 to 1800) - Hardcover

Silva, Maria Beatriz Nizza Da

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0860785203 ISBN 13: 9780860785200

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

This volume presents legal, religious and demographic aspects of the transfer of European family organisations to new environments in the overseas colonies, and illustrates the impacts of contact with other ethnic groups. In Africa the focus is on the Cape, the principal area of European settlement in the 17th-18th centuries; in the Americas the analysis includes indigenous and black families. Inheritance, dowry, marriage, divorce, illegitimacy are topics covered, but the emphasis is above all on women's roles and voices.

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Review:

'European and Non-European Societies and Christianity and Missions along with the other volumes in An Expanding World should become a standard collection for any academic library. The invaluable bibliography, the variety of themes, and the historical problems will engage students of all levels, undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral, in many aspects of early modern and world history for years to come.' Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. XXX, No. 1

About the Author:

Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva, Universidade Portucalense, Portugal Muriel Nazzari, Patricia Seed, Donald Ramos, Nancy F. Cott, Ann Twinam, Lynne Paquette, Real Bates, Edith Couturier, Alida C. Metcalf, Toby L. Ditz, Sarah Cline, A. J. R. Russell-Wood, Edgar F. Love, Leonard Guelke.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0860785203
• ISBN 13: 9780860785200
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360