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THICKER THAN WATER
SIBLINGS AND THEIR RELATIONS, 1780-1920 |
| By: |
Leonore Davidoff |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£33.99 |
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£33.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199678367 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199678365 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 August, 2013 |
| Pages: |
464 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
Thicker than Water is a pioneering study of sibling relationships from the last decades of the eighteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth. The particular focus of the book is on Britain and its middle classes, who were at its core, and the role of family networks created through sibling relationships. Leanore Davidoff examines what we know about the relationships of brothers and sisters at this time, before delving deeper, looking at their uses and meaning for British middle class families, how they operated within the economic, social, cultural, and religious constraints of their place and time, and how they changed as families became smaller from the end of the nineteenth century onwards. |
| Illustrations: |
19 b&w halftones |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
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