Approaches to the History of the Western Family 1500-1914

Approaches to the History of the Western Family 1500-1914
Author: Michael Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1995-09-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521557931

Over the past thirty years family history has been one of the most important and controversial growth areas in the development of social history. In this guide to the burgeoning literature on the Western family Professor Anderson reviews the main findings of historians and considers them in the light of the problems inherent in the interpretation of family history. He focuses particularly on the strengths and limitations of the different approaches that have been adopted, showing that although this variety of method has complicated matters, it has also produced a more rounded understanding of the history of the family. Updated to include work published between 1980 and 1994, this book will be invaluable to students of family history, and to scholars who are non-specialist in the field.

Family History

Family History
Author:
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 186
Release: 1985
Genre: Families
ISBN: 9780866561365

An ambitious volume of studies of the origins and trends in family history of major geographical areas.

Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500

Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500
Author: Hugh Cunningham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2014-07-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317868048

This book investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of five hundred years. Hugh Cunningham tells an engaging story of the development of ideas about childhood from the Renaissance to the present, taking in Locke, Rosseau, Wordsworth and Freud, revealing considerable differences in the way western societites have understood and valued childhood over time. His survey of parent/child relationships uncovers evidence of parental love, care and, in the frequent cases of child death, grief throughout the period, concluding that there was as much continuity as change in the actual relations of children and adults across these five centuries. For undergraduate courses in History of the Family, European Social History, History of Children and Gender History.

The Fantasy of Family

The Fantasy of Family
Author: Elizabeth Thiel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135861161

The myth of the Victorian family remains a pervasive influence within a contemporary Britain that perceives itself to be in social crisis. Nostalgic for a golden age of "Victorian values" in which visions of supportive, united families predominate, the common consciousness, exhorted by social and political discourse, continues to vaunt the "traditional, natural" family as the template by which all other family forms are gauged. Yet this fantasy of family, nurtured and augmented throughout the Victorian era, was essentially a construct that belied the realities of a nineteenth-century world in which orphanhood, fostering, and stepfamilies were endemic. Focusing primarily on British children's texts written by women and drawing extensively on socio-historic material, The Fantasy of Family considers the paradoxes implicit to the perpetuation of the domestic ideal within the Victorian era and offers new perspectives on both nineteenth-century and contemporary society.

Rethinking The Subject

Rethinking The Subject
Author: James Faubion
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429966199

Since the early seventies, European thinkers have departed notably from their predecessors in order to pursue analytical programs more thoroughly their own. Rethinking the Subject brings together in one volume some of the most influential writings of Foucault, Habermas, Bourdieu, Pizzorno, Macfarlane, and other authors whose ideas have had a worldwide influence in recent social theory. This anthology is testament to the central importance of three contemporary themes, each familiar to earlier thinkers but never definitively formulated or resolved. The first two concern the nature and modalities of power and legitimacy in society. The third, and most fundamental, deals with the nature and modalities of the "self" or "subject." These themes owe their special contemporary relevance to an array of events— from the collapse of colonialism to the birth of test-tube babies. James Faubion's introduction traces the historical context of these influential events and themes. It also traces the lineaments of a still inchoate intellectual movement, of which the anthology's contributors are the vanguard. Whether "modernist" or "post-modernist," this movement leads away from a "world-constituting subject," which in one guise or another has served as the ontological ground of social reflection and research since Kant. It points instead toward ontological pluralism and toward polythetic diagnostics of heterogeneous forces that constitute a multiplicity of worlds and subjects.

Longman Handbook to Modern British History 1714 - 2001

Longman Handbook to Modern British History 1714 - 2001
Author: Chris Cook
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2014-07-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317875249

This compact and accessible reference work provides all the essential facts and figures about major aspects of modern British history from the death of Queen Anne to the end of the 1990s. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History has been extended to include a fully-revised bibliography (reflecting the wealth of newly published material in recent years), the new statistics on social and economic history and an expanded glossary of terms. The political chronologies have been revised to include the electoral defeat of John Major and the record of New Labour in office. Designed for the student and general reader, this highly-successful handbook provides a wealth of varied data within the confines of a single volume.

Wives, Widows, and Concubines

Wives, Widows, and Concubines
Author: Mytheli Sreenivas
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2008
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0253351189

Debates about family, property, and nation in Tamil India

Between the Middle Ages and Modernity

Between the Middle Ages and Modernity
Author: Charles H. Parker
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780742553101

This groundbreaking book examines the complex relationships between individuals and communities in the profound transitions of the early modern period. Taking a global and comparative approach to historical issues, the distinguished contributors show that individual and community created and recreated one another in the major structures, interactions, and transitions of early modern times. Offering an important contribution to our understanding both of the early modern period and of its historiography, this volume will be an invaluable resource for scholars working in the fields of medieval, early modern, and modern history, and on the Renaissance and Reformation.