Kinship in Europe - Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300-1900) (Hardcover, New)

Since the publication of Philippe Aries's book, Centuries of Childhood, in the early 1960s, there has been great interest among historians in the history of the family and the household. A central aspect of the debate relates the story of the family to implicit notions of modernization, with the rise of the nuclear family in the West as part of its economic and political success. During the past decade, however, that synthesis has begun to break down. Historians have begun to examine kinship - the way individual families are connected to each other through marriage and descent - finding that during the most dynamic period in European industrial development, class formation, and state reorganization, Europe became a "kinship hot" society. The essays in this volume explore two major transitions in kinship patterns - at the end of the Middle Ages and at the end of the eighteenth century - in an effort to reset the agenda in family history.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2007
First published:	2007
Editors:	David Warren Sabean • Simon Teuscher • Jon Mathieu
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	352
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-84545-288-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > History > European history > General
LSN:	1-84545-288-7
Barcode:	9781845452889

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