What was life like for the British men, women, and children who lived in late imperial India while serving the Raj? Empire Families examines this British overseas community by looking at a series of families, their lives in India, and their travels back to Britain. Focusing for …
"Introduction : making 'British-Indians' : children, family traditions of Indian service, and cycles of migration"--BOOK JACKET. "Conclusion : plain tales and family romances : remembering the Raj in post-Colonial Britain" "In this first study of family life in British India, El…
"Classical sociologist Emile Durkheim's focus on one of his primary interests - the family - has appeared only in scattered sources, with many not even translated into English. For these reasons, his writings are little known and have not been presented and analyzed holistically…
"Classical sociologist Emile Durkheim's focus on one of his primary interests - the family - has appeared only in scattered sources, with many not even translated into English. For these reasons, his writings are little known and have not been presented and analyzed holistically…
Working on the assumption that cultural representations are not entirely separable, this study probes how the Soviet regime's representations structured teachers' observations of their pupils and often adults' recollections of their childhood. It offers some tentative answers to…
Small Comrades is a fascinating examination of Soviet conceptions of childhood and the resulting policies directed toward children. Working on the assumption that cultural representations and self-representations are not entirely separable, this book probes how the Soviet regime…
Working on the assumption that cultural representations are not entirely separable, this study probes how the Soviet regime's representations structured teachers' observations of their pupils and often adults' recollections of their childhood. It offers some tentative answers to…
Annotation
This comprehensive reference explores the current and future state of biobehavioral markers in family resilience research, with special focus on linking biological and physiological measures to behavioral and health outcomes. It brings together the latest biobehavioral data on c…
This book explores the ways that families were formed and re-formed, and held together and fractured, in Britain from the sixteenth to twentieth century. The chapters build upon the argument, developed in the 1990s and 2000s, that the nuclear family form, the bedrock of understa…
This collection shows what happens when facing the inevitable and sometimes expected death of a parent, and how such an ordinary part of life as parental death might connect with the children left behind. In many ways, individual deaths are extraordinary and leave a unique legac…
by Wyn, Johanna, Harris, Anita, Cuervo, Hernan
This book takes a global perspective to address the concept of belonging in youth studies, interrogating its emergence as a reoccurring theme in the literature and elucidating its benefits and shortcomings. While belonging offers new alignments across previously divergent approa…
This book discusses the popularity of temporary and child marriages in Iran and Afghanistan and explores their historical background and the reasons why they still persist today. Further, it offers readers insights into the emotional and psychological violence that the women who…
