Author : Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429865074
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Book Synopsis Families in the Expansion of Europe,1500-1800 by : Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva
Download or read book Families in the Expansion of Europe,1500-1800 written by Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.