While the current discussion of ethnic, trade, and commercial diasporas, global networks, and transnational communities constantly makes reference to the importance of families and kinship groups for understanding the dynamics of dispersion, few studies examine the nature of these families in any detail. This book, centered largely on the European experience of families scattered geographically, challenges the dominant narratives of modernization by offering a long-term perspective from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Paradoxically, "transnational families" are to be found long before the nation-state was in place.…mehr
While the current discussion of ethnic, trade, and commercial diasporas, global networks, and transnational communities constantly makes reference to the importance of families and kinship groups for understanding the dynamics of dispersion, few studies examine the nature of these families in any detail. This book, centered largely on the European experience of families scattered geographically, challenges the dominant narratives of modernization by offering a long-term perspective from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Paradoxically, "transnational families" are to be found long before the nation-state was in place.
Christopher H. Johnson is Professor Emeritus of History and member of the Academy of Scholars at Wayne State University.
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List of Figures Preface Introduction: Rethinking European Kinship: Trans-regional and Transnational Families David Warren Sabean and Simon Teuscher Chapter 1. The Historical Emergence and Massification of International Families in Europe and its Diaspora Jose C. Moya Section I. The Medieval and Early Modern Experience Chapter 2. Mamluk and Ottoman Political Households: An Alternative Model of 'Kinship' and 'Family' Gabriel Piterberg Chapter 3. From Local Signori to European High Nobility: The Gonzaga Family Networks in the Fifteenth Century Christina Antenhofer Chapter 4. Property Regimes and Migration of Patrician Families in Western Europe around 1500 Simon Teuscher Chapter 5. Trans-dynasticism at the Dawn of the Modern Era: Kinship Dynamics among Ruling Families Michaela Hohkamp Chapter 6. Marriage, Commercial Capital, and Business Agency: Trans-regional Sephardic (and Armenian) Families in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean Francesca Trivellato Chapter 7. Those in Between: Princely Families on the Margins of the Great Powers-The Franco-German Frontier, 1477-1830 Jonathan Spangler Chapter 8. Spiritual Kinship: The Moravians as an International Fellowship of Brothers and Sisters (1730s-1830s) Gisele Mettele Section II. Modernity Chapter 9. Families of Empires and Nations: Phanariot Hanedans from the Ottoman Empire to the World Around It (1669-1856) Christine Philliou Chapter 10. Into the World: Kinship and Nation-Building in France, 1750-1885 Christopher H. Johnson Chapter 11. German International Families in the Nineteenth Century: The Siemens Family as a Thought Experiment David Warren Sabean Chapter 12. The Culture of Caribbean Migration to Britain in the 1950s Mary Chamberlain Chapter 13. Exile, Familial Ideology, and Gender Roles in Palestinian Camps in Jordan since 1948 Stéphanie Latte Abdallah Chapter 14. Mirror Image of Family Relations: Social Links between Patel Migrants in Britain and India Mario Rutten and Pravin J. Patel Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
List of Figures Preface Introduction: Rethinking European Kinship: Trans-regional and Transnational Families David Warren Sabean and Simon Teuscher Chapter 1. The Historical Emergence and Massification of International Families in Europe and its Diaspora Jose C. Moya Section I. The Medieval and Early Modern Experience Chapter 2. Mamluk and Ottoman Political Households: An Alternative Model of 'Kinship' and 'Family' Gabriel Piterberg Chapter 3. From Local Signori to European High Nobility: The Gonzaga Family Networks in the Fifteenth Century Christina Antenhofer Chapter 4. Property Regimes and Migration of Patrician Families in Western Europe around 1500 Simon Teuscher Chapter 5. Trans-dynasticism at the Dawn of the Modern Era: Kinship Dynamics among Ruling Families Michaela Hohkamp Chapter 6. Marriage, Commercial Capital, and Business Agency: Trans-regional Sephardic (and Armenian) Families in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean Francesca Trivellato Chapter 7. Those in Between: Princely Families on the Margins of the Great Powers-The Franco-German Frontier, 1477-1830 Jonathan Spangler Chapter 8. Spiritual Kinship: The Moravians as an International Fellowship of Brothers and Sisters (1730s-1830s) Gisele Mettele Section II. Modernity Chapter 9. Families of Empires and Nations: Phanariot Hanedans from the Ottoman Empire to the World Around It (1669-1856) Christine Philliou Chapter 10. Into the World: Kinship and Nation-Building in France, 1750-1885 Christopher H. Johnson Chapter 11. German International Families in the Nineteenth Century: The Siemens Family as a Thought Experiment David Warren Sabean Chapter 12. The Culture of Caribbean Migration to Britain in the 1950s Mary Chamberlain Chapter 13. Exile, Familial Ideology, and Gender Roles in Palestinian Camps in Jordan since 1948 Stéphanie Latte Abdallah Chapter 14. Mirror Image of Family Relations: Social Links between Patel Migrants in Britain and India Mario Rutten and Pravin J. Patel Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
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