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.
ISBN: | 9781138624375 |
Publication date: | 30th June 2020 |
Author: | Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva |
Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 325 pages |
Series: | Routledge Revivals |
Genres: |
General and world history Social and cultural history Colonialism and imperialism Human geography History and Archaeology |