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Berghahn Books Transregional and Transnational Families in Europe and Beyond Experiences Since the Middle Ages 2011 Edition by Christopher H. Johnson, David Warren Sabean
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. Table of contents :- List of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction: Rethinking European Kinship: Trans-regional and Transnational FamiliesDavid Warren Sabean and Simon TeuscherChapter 1. The Historical Emergence and Massification of International Families in Europe and its DiasporaJose C. MoyaSection I. The Medieval and Early Modern ExperienceChapter 2. Mamluk and Ottoman Political Households: An Alternative Model of 'Kinship' and 'Family'Gabriel PiterbergChapter 3. From Local Signori to European High Nobility: The Gonzaga Family Networks in the Fifteenth CenturyChristina AntenhoferChapter 4. Property Regimes and Migration of Patrician Families in Western Europe around 1500Simon TeuscherChapter 5. Trans-dynasticism at the Dawn of the Modern Era: Kinship Dynamics among Ruling FamiliesMichaela HohkampChapter 6. Marriage, Commercial Capital, and Business Agency: Trans-regional Sephardic (and Armenian) Families in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century MediterraneanFrancesca TrivellatoChapter 7. Those in Between: Princely Families on the Margins of the Great Powers-The Franco-German Frontier, 1477-1830Jonathan SpanglerChapter 8. Spiritual Kinship: The Moravians as an International Fellowship of Brothers and Sisters (1730s-1830s)Gisele MetteleSection II. ModernityChapter 9. Families of Empires and Nations: Phanariot Hanedans from the Ottoman Empire to the World Around It (1669-1856)Christine PhilliouChapter 10. Into the World: Kinship and Nation-Building in France, 1750-1885Christopher H. JohnsonChapter 11. German International Families in the Nineteenth Century: The Siemens Family as a Thought ExperimentDavid Warren SabeanChapter 12. The Culture of Caribbean Migration to Britain in the 1950sMary ChamberlainChapter 13. Exile, Familial Ideology, and Gender Roles in Palestinian Camps in Jordan since 1948Stephanie Latte AbdallahChapter 14. Mirror Image of Family Relations: Social Links between Patel Migrants in Britain and IndiaMario Rutten and Pravin J. PatelNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex