Families in the Expansion of Europe,1500-1800

Families in the Expansion of Europe,1500-1800
ISBN-10
0429865074
ISBN-13
9780429865077
Category
History
Pages
325
Language
English
Published
2020-10-12
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva

Description

Published in 1998, 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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