Description: Further DetailsTitle: Family TreesCondition: NewEAN: 9780674045835ISBN: 9780674045835Publisher: Harvard University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/30/2013Item Height: 210mmItem Length: 140mmLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: A History of Genealogy in AmericaISBN-10: 0674045831Description: The quest for roots has been an enduring American preoccupation. Over the centuries, generations have sketched coats of arms, embroidered family trees, established local genealogical societies, and carefully filled in the blanks in their bibles, all in pursuit of self-knowledge and status through kinship ties. This long and varied history of Americans’ search for identity illuminates the story of America itself, according to François Weil, as fixations with social standing, racial purity, and national belonging gave way in the twentieth century to an embrace of diverse ethnicity and heritage.Seeking out one’s ancestors was a genteel pursuit in the colonial era, when an aristocratic pedigree secured a place in the British Atlantic empire. Genealogy developed into a middle-class diversion in the young republic. But over the next century, knowledge of one’s family background came to represent a quasi-scientific defense of elite “Anglo-Saxons” in a nation transformed by immigration and the emancipation of slaves. By the mid-twentieth century, when a new enthusiasm for cultural diversity took hold, the practice of tracing one’s family tree had become thoroughly democratized and commercialized.Today, Ancestry.com attracts over two million members with census records and ship manifests, while popular television shows depict celebrities exploring archives and submitting to DNA testing to learn the stories of their forebears. Further advances in genetics promise new insights as Americans continue their restless pursuit of past and place in an ever-changing world.Country/Region of Manufacture: USAuthor: François WeilGenre: HistoryRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Family Trees
Title: Family Trees
EAN: 9780674045835
ISBN: 9780674045835
Release Date: 04/30/2013
Release Year: 2013
Subtitle: A History of Genealogy in America
ISBN-10: 0674045831
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Family Trees : a History of Genealogy in America
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Subject: Genealogy & Heraldry, Social History, United States / General
Publication Year: 2013
Item Height: 0.1 in
Type: Not Available
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Author: Francois Weil
Item Length: 0.9 in
Subject Area: Référence, History
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
