[PDF] The European Family eBook

Author : Karin Bojs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1472941497

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Karin Bojs grew up in a small, broken family. At her mother's funeral she felt this more keenly than ever. As a science journalist she was eager to learn more about herself, her family and the interconnectedness of society. After all, we're all related. And in a sense, we are all family. My European Family tells the story of Europe and its people through its genetic legacy, from the first wave of immigration to the present day, weaving in the latest archaeological findings. Karin goes deep in search of her genealogy; by having her DNA sequenced she was able to trace the path of her ancestors back through the Viking and Bronze ages to the Neolithic and beyond into prehistory, even back to a time when Neanderthals ran the European show. Travelling to dozens of countries to follow the story, she learns about early farmers in the Middle East and flute-playing cavemen in Germany and France, and a whole host of other fascinating characters. This book looks at genetics from a uniquely pan-European perspective, with the author meeting dozens of geneticists, historians and archaeologists in the course of her research. The genes of this seemingly ordinary modern European woman have a truly fascinating story to tell, and in many ways it is the true story of Europe. At a time when politics is pushing nations apart, this book shows that, ultimately, our genes will always bind us together.

Author : Maribel González Pascual
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 1317287584

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Exploring the main developments and challenges for the right to family life in the context of European integration, this book examines the right to family life in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the interplay between family life, citizenship, and free movement; it analyzes the combined impact of the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights on the concept of the family protected by the law in light of recent case law. Considering the broadening understanding of what constitutes family, the challenges for the right to family life in the context of immigration, and the protection of families and social rights it provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of family life in the European Union.

Author : David I. Kertzer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 22,35 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300089714

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This opening volume of a three-part history of the family in Europe examines the material conditions of family life, housing, diet and domestic organisation, and the economic and social factors that influenced its development.

Author : David I. Kertzer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300090901

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The penultimate volume in this series explores the effect that industrialisation, new technology, the growth of cities, and the revolutions in transport and in communication had on the family between 1789 and 1913.

Author : Maria N. Todorova
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 13,74 MB
Release : 2006-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 6155053863

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This study, which is an updated, extended, and revised version of the out-of-print 1993 edition, reassesses the traditional stereotype of the place of the Balkans in the model of the European family in the nineteenth century on the basis of new source material and by synthesizing existing research. The work first analyzes family structure and demographic variables as they appear in population registers and other sources, and the impact of these findings on theoretical syntheses of the European family pattern. On most features, such as population structure, marriage and nuptiality, birth and fertility, death and mortality rates, family and household size and structure, as well as inheritance patterns, the Balkans show an enormous deal of internal variety. This variability is put in a comparative European context by matching the quantifiable results with comparable figures and patterns in other parts of Europe. The second section of the book is a contribution to the long-standing debate over the zadruga, the complex, collective, joint or extended family in the Balkans. Finally, the book considers ideology and mythology and the ways it has adversely affected scholarship on the family, and broadly on population history.

Author : Linda Hantrias
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 28,22 MB
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317891260

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The family is currently a controversial topic both within the UK and Europe. While demographic trends seem to suggest that family structures and attitudes within the European Union are converging and that member states are facing similar social problems, their policy responses are very different. This book examines the differences between these national responses and that of the EU as contained in the social chapter. It analyses the key concepts underlying the formulation of family policy and illustrates it with the latest data much of it hitherto unpublished.

Author : David I. Kertzer
Publisher :
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Cross-cultural studies
ISBN :

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This book inaugurates a major three-volume history of the family in Europe over the past five hundred years. In the series, eminent European and American social historians present a fresh reading of family life in Europe, explaining how families and family relations differed across Europe and how and why they changed over time.

Author : Jack Goody
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 1983-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521289252

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An original theory asserts that this distinctive form of kinship system developed in the northern Mediterranean around the fourth century A.D., and that its subsequent growth can be attributed to the efforts of the early Christian Church to acquire property formerly held by domestic groups.

Author : Jack Goody
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
Release : 2000-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780631201564

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This is a concise, yet wide-ranging, history of the family in Europe from antiquity to the present day.