Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Age of Enlightenment
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Elizabeth Foyster is Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge and author of Marital Conflict and Violence in the English Family, 1660-1857 and Manhood in Early Modern England.James Marten is Chair of the Department of History at Marquette University and author or editor of several books on the history of childhood, including Children and War: A Historical Anthology and Children in Colonial America.
The collection of ideas, values, and beliefs known as the Enlightenment fundamentally altered the ways in which the family was understood. During this period (1650–1800), traditional family roles were rethought, questioning much which had been taken for granted, such as the innate nature of children. At the same time, the Enlightenment also reinforced many long-held notions, applying new ideas to perpetuate assumptions about gender and race.
The commercialization of agriculture, industrialization, and urbanization, as well as the opportunities presented by expanding education and the sale of domestic goods all impacted on the family. Further, the continuing expansion of Western empires, the ownership of slaves within American states, and the political turmoil of the American and French revolutions all helped to shape both the ideals and the experience of family life.
A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Age of Enlightenment presents essays on family relationships, community, economy, geography and the environment, education, life cycle, the state, faith and religion, health and science, and world contexts.
Elizabeth Foyster (University of Cambridge, UK) and James Marten (University of Milwaukee, USA)
1 Family Relationships
Joanne Bailey (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
2 Community
Alysa Levene (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
3 Economy
Deborah Simonton (University of Southern Denmark, DENMARK)
4 Geography and the Environment
Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick, UK)
5 Education
Valentina K. Tikoff (DePaul University in Chicago, USA)
6 Life Cycle
Mary Abbott (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)
7 The State
Steven King (University of Leicester, UK)
8 Faith and Religion
Allison P. Coudert (University of California Davis, USA)
9 Health and Science
Mary Lindemann (University of Miami, USA)
10 World Contexts
Adriana Silvia Benzaquén (Mount Saint Vincent University, CANADA)
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
The Cultural Histories are multi-volume sets that survey the social and cultural construction of specific subjects across six historical periods, broadly:
- Antiquity
- The Medieval Age
- The Early Modern Age
- The Age of Enlightenment
- The Age of Empire
- The Modern Age
The subjects covered range from Animals to Dress and Fashion, from Sport to Furniture, from Money to Fairy Tales. Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters so that readers may gain an understanding of a period by reading an entire volume, or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Each six-volume set is illustrated.
Titles are available as printed sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
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Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Elizabeth Foyster is Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge and author of Marital Conflict and Violence in the English Family, 1660-1857 and Manhood in Early Modern England.James Marten is Chair of the Department of History at Marquette University and author or editor of several books on the history of childhood, including Children and War: A Historical Anthology and Children in Colonial America.