Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion, and Exile, 1550-1850 / / ed. by Heather Dalton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Barclay, Katie,; Bregoli, Francesca,; Broomhall, Susan,; Cutter, Nat,; Dalton, Heather,; Dooley, Gillian,; Frigren, Pirita,; Hordvik, Eilin,; O’Leary, Jessica,; Roitman, Jessica,; Toivo, Raisa Maria,
• HerausgeberIn: Dalton, Heather,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)

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 a three hundred year 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Images, Maps, and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Keeping Family -- Part 1. Surviving Slavery, Transportation and Forced Labour -- 1 Shaping Family Identity among Korean Migrant Potters in Japan during the Tokugawa Period -- 2 Forced Separations -- 3 ‘If I Should Fall Behind’ -- Part 2. On the Road: Mobility, Wellbeing, and Survival -- 4 The Witch Who Moved to the Wilderness -- 5 Independence, Affection and Mobility in Eighteenth-Century Scotland -- Part 3. In the Absence of Family, Support in Unfamiliar Environments -- 6 Relationships Lost and Found in the Mid-Sixteenth-Century Iberian Atlantic -- 7 ‘Grieved in My Soul that I Suffered You to Depart from Me’ -- Part. 4 Managing Kinship-Based Businesses and Trading Networks -- 8 New Christian Family Networks in the First Visitation of the Inquisition to Brazil -- 9 Intimate Affairs -- Part 5. Ensuring the Survival of Maritime Families -- 10 ‘These Happy Effects on the Character of the British Sailor’ -- 11 Maintaining the Family -- General Index -- Index of Persons