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Thicker Than Water - Siblings and Their Relations, 1780-1920 (Hardcover)
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Thicker Than Water - Siblings and Their Relations, 1780-1920 (Hardcover)
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Brothers and sisters remain, for those that have them, an
inextricable part of existence. In adult life they may never be in
contact but they cannot be formally divorced. Brothers and sisters
are frequently life's longest relationship. Yet until recently,
historians have scarcely noticed.
Thicker than Water is a pioneering history of sibling relationships
in the long nineteenth century, from the last decades of the
eighteenth to the first decades of the twentieth. The principal
focus is on Britain, the first major capitalist society, and its
middle classes, who were at the core of the nascent new order. It
was their extensive family networks that provided the capital,
personnel, skills, and contacts crucial to the rapidly expanding
commercial and professional enterprises of the Victorian era.
Davidoff examines what we know about sibling relationships at this
time, before delving deeper, looking at their uses and meaning for
British middle class families, how they operated within the
economic, social, cultural, and religious constraints of their
place and time, and how they changed as families became smaller
from the end of the nineteenth century onwards.
The issues raised throughout the book are grounded in an
exploration of some specific themes, sibling intimacy and incest,
sibling death, as well as in case studies of famous sibling
relationships, such as that between William Gladstone and his
sisters, and a revealing account of the household relations of
perhaps the most influential interpreter of personal and familial
life in modern society, Sigmund Freud.
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