Fatherhood

A sweeping but intimate history - from the Bronze Age to the modern day - exploring where our inherited ideas of fatherhood have come from, how the role has changed over the centuries, and what it now means to be a dad.

Augustine Sedgewick earned his doctorate at Harvard University, and his research on the global history of capitalism, work, food, sex and masculinity has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Jackman Humanities Institute of the University of Toronto and the Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics at Harvard. Originally from Maine, he lives in New York City. Fatherhood is his second book.