Time, Family and Community

Perspectives on Family and Community History
1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-631-19237-4
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

This new reader contains a broad range of authoritative articles, including some newly commissioned pieces, and covers several key facets of family and community history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Drake, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

Part I: Approaches to the History of Family or Community:.

Recent Research on the History of the Family: Tamara K. Hareven.

Biography, Family History and the Analysis of Social Change: Brian Elliott.

Part II: The Family, Past and Present:.

What is New About the Modern Family?: Michael Anderson.

Do Families Support Each Other More or Less Than in the Past?: Janet Finch.

Theories of Family Development and the Experience of Being Brought Up: Lynn Jamieson.

Women and the Domestic Economy, 1890-1970: The Oral Evidence: Elizabeth Roberts.

Part III: Migration and Movement:.

E. G. Ravenstein and the 'Laws of Migration': D. B. Grigg.

Historians and Immigration: Colin Holmes.

Migration and the Social History of Modern Europe: James H. Jackson, Jr and Leslie Page Moch.

Part IV: A Sense of Community:.

'Community' and the Social Geography of Victorian Cities: Richard Dennis and Stephen Daniels.

Natives and Incomers: The Symbolism of Belonging in Muker Parish, North Yorkshire: Scott K. Phillips.

Avoiding the Ghetto: Pakistani Migrants and Settlement Shifts in Manchester: Phina Werbner.

Community and Nation in the Past: Perception and Reality: Dennis Mills.

Glossary.

Recommended Reading List.

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Drake is Emeritus Professor in the Social Sciences at The Open University, and Visiting Professor of History at the University of Tromsø, Norway.