Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion and Exile, 1550-1850 brings together eleven original essays by an international group of scholars, each investigating how family, or the idea of family, was maintained or reinvented when husbands, wives, children, apprentices, servants or slaves separated, or faced separation, from their household. The result is a fresh and geographically wide-ranging discussion about the nature of family and its intersection with travel over a three hundred year period during which roles and relationships, within and between households, were increasingly affected by trade, settlement, and empire building. The imperial project may have influenced different regions in different ways at different times yet, as this collection reveals, families, especially those transcending national ties and traditional boundaries were central to its progress. Together, these essays bring new understandings of the foundations of our interconnected world and of the people who contributed to it.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Keeping Family
- Part 1: Surviving Slavery, Transportation and Forced Labour
- 1. Shaping Family Identity among Korean Migrant Potters in Japan during the Tokugawa Period
- 2. Forced Separations
- Severed Family Ties and New Beginnings for Mauritian Convicts Transported to Australia between 1825 and 1845
- 3. ‘If I Should Fall Behind’
- Motherhood, Marriage, and Forced Migration in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Leeward Islands
- Part 2: On the Road: Mobility, Wellbeing, and Survival
- 4. The Witch Who Moved to the Wilderness
- Religious Control, Distance, and Family Survival in Finland, 1670–1707
- 5. Independence, Affection and Mobility in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
- Part 3: In the Absence of Family, Support in Unfamiliar Environments
- 6. Relationships Lost and Found in the Mid-Sixteenth-Century Iberian Atlantic
- An Englishman’s ‘Suffering Rewarded’
- 7. ‘Grieved in My Soul that I Suffered You to Depart from Me’
- Community and Isolation in the English Houses at Tunis and Tripoli, 1679–1686
- Part 4: Managing Kinship-Based Businesses and Trading Networks
- 8. New Christian Family Networks in the First Visitation of the Inquisition to Brazil
- The Case of the Nunes Brothers (1591–1595)
- 9. Intimate Affairs
- Family and Commerce in a Trans-Mediterranean Jewish Firm, 1776–1790
- Part 5: Ensuring the Survival of Maritime Families
- 10. ‘These Happy Effects on the Character of the British Sailor’
- Family Life in Sea Songs of the Late Georgian Period
- 11. Maintaining the Family
- Community Support for Merchant Sailors’ Families in Finland, 1830–1860
- General Index
- Index of Persons
- List of Images, Maps, and Tables
- Figures
- Figure 1.1 Hyakubasen monument at Hōon Temple, Hiekoba. Photography by Y. Yanagawa, 2018.
- Fig. 1.2 Side inscription on the Hyakubasen monument at Hōon Temple. Photography by R. Vrolijk, 2018.
- Figure 1.3 Hagiyaki Tea bowl, Edo period (seventeenth-eighteenth century), h. 11cm. National Museum of Korea. Jeung 7060.
- Figure 1.4 The porcelain torii of Tōzan Shrine, Arita. Designated as Japanese Government Tangible Cultural Properties, April 28, 2000. Wikimedia.
- Figure 2.1 Photographic portrait of Constance Trudget née Couronne (1824–1891). Papers of Edward Duyker. National Library of Australia MS 9061/11.
- Tables
- Table 3.1 Population of St. Eustatius
- Table 4.1 Risto’s family tree with connections to the Sawo family (R. M. Toivo)
- Maps
- Map 4.1 Finland’s main roads in the seventeenth century with Risto’s domiciles marked with a cross (R. M. Toivo).
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