Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
360
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.
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
360
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.