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Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion, and Exile, 1550-1850 is a comprehensive historical study of how families navigated separation and maintained kinship ties during one of history’s most transformative periods. As European powers expanded their colonial empires and merchant networks spread across the globe, millions of individuals found themselves separated from their loved ones by vast distances.
Through letters, documents, and personal accounts, this work reveals the emotional, economic, and social mechanisms families used to preserve their bonds. It examines how trade networks, imperial bureaucracies, and systems of exile shaped family structures and relationships. The book addresses questions of inheritance, marriage arrangements, child-rearing across continents, and the role of women in maintaining family cohesion during prolonged absences.
This interdisciplinary approach combines historical research with social analysis to provide insights into early modern family life, migration patterns, and the human dimensions of empire-building and commercial expansion.
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