Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion, and Exile, 1550-1850
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Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion, and Exile, 1550-1850
About this book
Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion, and Exile, 1550--1850 brings together eleven original essays by an international group of scholars, each investigating how family, or the idea of family, was maintained or reinvented when husbands, wives, children, apprentices, servants or slaves separated, or faced separation, from their household. The result is a fresh and geographically wide-ranging discussion about the nature of family and its intersection with travel over three hundred years -- a period during which roles and relationships, within and between households, were increasingly affected by trade, settlement, and empire building. The imperial project may have influenced different regions in different ways at different times yet, as this collection reveals, families, especially those transcending national ties and traditional boundaries, were central to its progress. Together, these essays bring new understandings of the foundations of our interconnected world and of the people who contributed to it.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Images, Maps, and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Keeping Family
- Part 1 Surviving Slavery, Transportation and Forced Labour
- Part 2 On the Road: Mobility, Wellbeing, and Survival
- Part 3 In the Absence of Family, Support in Unfamiliar Environments
- Part 4 Managing Kinship-Based Businesses and Trading Networks
- Part 5 Ensuring the Survival of Maritime Families
- General Index
- Index of Persons