![]() | Families in the Expansion of Europe,1500-1800 Subjects: Geography; Humanities; Human Geography; History; Population Geography; World/ International History; Early Modern History 1500-1750; Women''s & Gender History; Imperial & Colonial History; Social & Cultural History; 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. |
![hidden image for function call](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/1x1.png)