Leonore Davidoff (Research Professor, Department of Sociology, Univ

Broschiertes Buch

Thicker Than Water

Siblings and Their Relations, 1780-1920

Beschreibung

A pioneering new study of nineteenth-century kinship and family relations, focusing on the British middle class, and highlighting both the similarities and the differences in relations between brothers and sisters in the past and in the present.

Autor

Leonore Davidoff is a Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. She has held visiting professorships and fellowships in the US, Australia, Sweden, and several other European countries. Her main area of research is the relationship between the family and economic organization in the period of nascent capitalist development from around 1780 to 1920. She has also pioneered the history of gender relations and in 1987 she became Founding Editor of Gender and History.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 668g
• ISBN-13: 9780199678365
• ISBN-10: 0199678367
• Artikelnr.: 37778585