Paternity

Book Review| February 01 2021 Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father. By Milanich, Nara B.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Photographs. Figures. Notes. Index. 352 pp. Cloth, $35.00. Isabella Cosse Isabella Cosse Universidad de Buenos Aires Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 187–189. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8796847 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Isabella Cosse; Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 February 2021; 101 (1): 187–189. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8796847 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsHispanic American Historical Review Search Advanced Search This is one of those books that are difficult to classify. Some years ago, Nara Milanich delivered a powerful critique of European family historiography, challenging its self-referential questions and tired approaches. She argued that renewing the field required looking to other latitudes and seriously examining Latin American history. Paternity can be seen as the result of that call to breathe new life into family history by considering Latin America and placing it at the center of the major questions of historiography, those that restore our delight in reading good history, in being historians.Through the question of the father, Milanich examines the problem of the political order—of rights and inclusion—in Euro-American societies that, even allowing for their great differences, share a common trunk of cultural and legal traditions. It also enables her to probe sociocultural modernization in the twentieth century through the... Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press2021 You do not currently have access to this content

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