Transregional and Transnational Families in Europe and Beyond: Experiences Since the Middle Ages

Published by Berghahn Books 2011

Transregional and Transnational Families in Europe and Beyond

Experiences Since the Middle Ages

Edited by: Christopher H. Johnson , David Warren Sabean , Simon Teuscher and Francesca Trivellato

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857451842

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Christopher H. Johnson is Professor Emeritus of History and member of the Academy of Scholars at Wayne State University.

David Warren Sabean is Henry J. Bruman Professor of German History at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Simon Teuscher is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Zurich.

Francesca Trivellato is Professor of History at Yale University.

Christopher H. Johnson is Professor Emeritus of History and member of the Academy of Scholars at Wayne State University.

Reviews

“The organizers and editors of the various panels and the book’s editors are to be congratulated for bringing together such a diverse group of scholars into a “global” discussion… The present volume stands as a pioneering effort to guide scholars towards the goal [of pointed theoretical questions for comparative study]…The book is nicely put together.” · Journal of Social History

“…The volume [is] an accomplished and diligent work, a touchstone to teach us about the limits of anthropological engagement. The ‘lively exchange’ between history and anthropology will only take place when anthropologists will take seriously the contributions made herein and apply them to the fields of migration studies, transnationalism and mobility.” · Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction. Rethinking European Kinship: Transregional and Transnational Families David Warren Sabean and Simon Teuscher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 The Historical Emergence and Massification of International Families in Europe and Its Diaspora Jose C. Moya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
PART I THE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN EXPERIENCE
Chapter 2 Mamluk and Ottoman Political Households: An Alternative Model of “Kinship” and “Family” Gabriel Piterberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Chapter 3 From Local Signori to European High Nobility: The Gonzaga Family Networks in the Fifteenth Century Christina Antenhofer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Chapter 4 Property Regimes and Migration of Patrician Families in Western Europe around 1500 Simon Teuscher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Chapter 5 Transdynasticism at the Dawn of the Modern Era: Kinship Dynamics among Ruling Families Michaela Hohkamp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Chapter 6 Marriage, Commercial Capital, and Business Agency: Transregional Sephardic (and Armenian) Families in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean Francesca Trivellato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Chapter 7 Those in Between: Princely Families on the Margins of the Great Powers—The Franco-German Frontier, 1477–1830 Jonathan Spangler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Chapter 8 Spiritual Kinship: The Moravians as an International Fellowship of Brothers and Sisters (1730s–1830s) Gisela Mettele Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
PART II MODERNITY
Chapter 9 Families of Empires and Nations: Phanariot Hanedans from the Ottoman Empire to the World Around It (1669–1856) Christine Philliou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Chapter 10 Into the World: Kinship and Nation Building in France, 1750–1885 Christopher H. Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Chapter 11 German International Families in the Nineteenth Century: The Siemens Family as a Thought Experiment David Warren Sabean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Chapter 12 The Culture of Caribbean Migration to Britain in the 1950s Mary Chamberlain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Chapter 13 Exile, Familial Ideology, and Gender Roles in Palestinian Camps in Jordan, 1948–2001 Stéphanie Latte Abdallah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Chapter 14 Mirror Image of Family Relations: Social Links between Patel Migrants in Britain and India Mario Rutten and Pravin J. Patel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 372
Keywords: History (General); Refugee and Migration Studies

eBook

Published: August 1, 2011
ISBN: 9780857451842